On Saturday 11 March 2006 21:54, Martin John Collins wrote:
Evening all,
Slowly but surely my Linux knowledge is growing but I have always avoided the big "N" as the alien terminology tends to make my head spin after about 5 mins of reading! But I'm going to give it a go. A full tutorial through the LUG is not what I'm after, but a few pointers of where to start would be appreciated.
There's a desktop in the lounge (which will be the server) connected by cable to a Linksys wireless broadband router for ADSL internet access. My laptop connects to the internet wirelessly (ndiswrapper) through the router. Both machines connect to the router via DHCP and there are firewalls enabled on the desktop, the laptop and internally on the router. In the next couple of months I will be putting another desktop in my son's bedroom upstairs. All three machines will be running SUSE 10.0
I won't add too much to what's been said about printing, but as for file sharing - if they're all running suse 10, I'd stick with fish.
Ensuring your machines can access each other via ssh is the only prerequisite.
Deciding on one machine to host the files is nice for organisational reasons, and creating an extra user is too.
You then point konqueror to fish:/user@hostname:folder, and hey presto, instant file sharing via ssh. Quicker, less config if you're using yast, and more secure to boot.
If you like that sort of thing (I don't) you can even have konqy store your passwords in your encrypted wallet, plonk a link on your desktop and use it transparently as a "folder".
Fish really is the best thing since sliced bread for this kind of thing. :)
Of course, this assumes you have access to konqueror.
Ten.