[KLUG Members] Adding a Laptop To My Network

[Scott Wood]

ummm - unmount?  OK, I need a bit more detail on the configuration then - as in
how the paths on the two machines coincide with this dockable/removeable drive.

For example, I use smbfs to handle most of the shares between my machines
internally (it is at least a little more secure than NFS - or as we used to
call it - No F***ing security).  I have a removeable DVD Ram disk that I use
off my desktop but need on my laptop (my PCMCIA scsi card fried out a few
months ago and I haven't gotten around to getting another one yet).

I mount on the desktop as:

  mount -t ext2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/dvdram

It's shared off the desktop as //hostname/dvdram via smbd

I then mount it on the laptop as:

  smbmount //hostname/dvdram /mnt/hostname/dvdram -U swood

yadda yadda yadda

The laptop samba mount client doesn't care or not whether there is actually
something under /mnt/dvdram on the remote machine - just that the share exists.
Similarly, the desktop's samba server doesn't care if there is anything under
/mnt/dvdram, just that the path exists.

Of course, you can't map sub-paths this way (i.e. I could not have samba point
to say - /mnt/dvdram/mandrake which only exists on both sides of only one of my
five DVD disks - if I switched disks, weird things would start to happen - that
is if it would let me unmount the disk at all!)

Scott

--- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> wrote:
> >>>The sever has tftp, NFS, Kerberos V, apache, php, ssh, telnet, and
> >>>sendmail installed and running.  I'm thinking that a GUI front end to
> >>>SSH might be the best approach,  but I also have rsync (which I've never
> >>>used), and just want to know if anyone has approached this problem and
> >>>what the BEST solution is.  If I come up with something now, and change
> >>>it in two weeks, my user base will be displeased.
> >wow - a box with telnet, tftp and NFS open and no FTP?  Lemme guess - not
> >included for security reasons? lol
> 
> It's an LTSP server so you've got to have those things,  and the telnet
> server is kerbized.  I don't have FTP because I ***HATE*** configuring
> FTP servers.  It is tucked happily behind a very obstinate firewall.
> 
> >I have a number of nice gui's for ftp stuff if you forgot to mention that
> one.
> >>How about NFS with a file manager to drop & drag files back & forth?
> >>Since it's a laptop, maybe the NFS automounter would be good so the
> >>network would come up remotely?
> 
> Hmmm.  I'd just need a way to make NFS unmount when eth0 is shutdown
> (undocked).
> 
> >I am not aware of any front ends for rsync, but that doesn't mean there
> aren't
> >any.  I also don't know of any linux gui's for ssh - but I believe I once
> ran
> >across a version for winblows.  Lemme know if you want me to try to remember
> >where I saw it.
> 
> Putty.
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