mounting other linux boxes

[Talion]

I want to mount a directory on my Slackware 10 box so I can copy files from my fedora box

whats the best way to do this, I have been trying to use the mount cmd, but cant get the right syntax, I just get no such partion found or special device not found.

any help appricated.

T.

[monkey8]

Are you talking about 2 different computers, or do you have 2 OS's installed?

Check out "man mount" and "man fstab" might be usefull too.

[Talion]

yes they are 2 seperate boxes, 1 is dedicated slackware 10, the other is duel boot fedora2/w2k

originally I wanted the easist way transfer a lot of data, I can do this via the ftp server just setup, but this got me thihnking about shared file systems and I now want to play with those.

so on Box_1(Slackware) I have a path /HOME/Backup/
then from Box_2(Fedora) I want to create a mount point /mnt/remote/
so Fedora see's Box_1 as a local mount point when I start copying data to it.

I've exported the fs on slackware (exportfs /HOME/Backup) ,
but when I try to mount (mount slackware:/HOME/Backup /mnt/remote)

comes back with server down,
I can ping the machines from each other.

any ideas ??

[sarumont]

You'll want to use NFS. It's the Linux Networked File System. Unfortunately, that's all I can offer you. I've never set it up, so I don't know anything about that part.

[monkey8]

I found this NFS how-to http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/

If you don't want to mount it, you can copy files over ssh using "scp" http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/scp.1.html

[ecliptik]

<sarcasm>
If it's just going to be two unix machines, use UUCP (Unix to Unix Copy) it's totally awesome, http://www.airs.com/ian/uucp.html .
</sarcasm>

I'd recommend NFS as well, it's pretty simple to setup it can do some pretty amazing stuff (root FS for a pure network boot anyone?).

Look into samba though, even if it's mostly used to work with MS based systems, it works well for unix-to-unix sharing. I recommend at least getting some basic knowledge of it cause if you're into using GNU/Linux you'll eventually run arcoss a situation where you'll need samba for either a personal or work related reason.

[Talion]

Cheers for the info, much appriciated

samba, I setup on a HP box at work for windows pc to access, having a stupid moment didn't think to use it for this.

I think i'll go down the NFS route more for the sakes of learning something new.

[sarumont]

Look into samba though, even if it's mostly used to work with MS based systems, it works well for unix-to-unix sharing. I recommend at least getting some basic knowledge of it cause if you're into using GNU/Linux you'll eventually run arcoss a situation where you'll need samba for either a personal or work related reason.

I've actually heard people say (as well as experienced) samba working better than the Windows filesharing itself.

[Talion]

used http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ all worked perfect!


Cheers
T.

[FyberOptyx]

i often just fire up ftp to copy files