set up a network conection between "suse" machines

[kgirl]

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie for this. I'm searching for help and I can't find it. I want to a set up a network with 3 computers, this pc's use a suse operating system and I want to share docs, printing etc etc.....can anyone tell me how to do this, step by step please if is posible .........tnx I apreciate so much

Do I need SAMBA to set up a network with the same operating system ??, in this case SUSE ???

[oldcpu]

There are many threads on this. You do not need Samba.

To share files, the way that is recommended by most is to use "nfs" on each SuSE PC.

Until you get nfs working, an alternative is to use "ssh" on each SuSE PC. To do that install "openssh" on each PC, and open your firewall on each PC to ssh. Then to copy a file from one pc to the other, if using KDE, open Konqueror browser and type: "fish://username@ip-address-of-pc-linking-to". For example: "fish://oldcpu@192.168.123.200" will bring me to another PC on our network, where 192.168.2.200 is the ip-address-of-pc-linking-to (ie the other pc).

I can also run an application on another PC (piping the graphics to my PC) using ssh. I do this by opening a konsole, and typing "ssh -X username@ip-address-of-pc-linking-to". Note that is a CAPITAL "X". This will open a konsole on the other PC. Then in the konsole type the executable for the program you wish to run, and voila.

For sharing printing, use the IPP standard via cups. Works very easy. You have to open the applicable port on your firewall (I think it is 631).