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I have a very simple LAN - a Netgear ADSL router with a desktop connected using a wired ethernet connection, and a laptop (EeePC) which is sometimes connected via ethernet and sometime by wireless.
The desktop runs OpenSuSE (11.1) and the laptop is running Arch. We are a Microsoft-free zone!
Until recently, the laptop ran OpenSuSE as well, and I networked the two machines using NFS and lots of trial and error.
Having just replaced the OS on the laptop with Arch (best thing I ever did!) I would appreciate any views on the best way to re-establish networking between the two machines. Is NFS the best solution, or Samba, or Avahi, or........
It's all a bit of a mystery to me, and I would like make the best decision.
Thanks in advance
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I would suggest samba since it's so easy and in my experience faster than nfs. See the samba wiki page.
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for simple file sharing my vote goes to quickserve
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I would use sshfs.
It uses SSH to establish a SFTP connection between the systems. From there it uses FUSE to abstract the sftp session to be a file system which is mounted to a directory in your file system.
In this house I've Windows, Linux and OS/x. They all play nicely using sshfs. Between this and Avahi, life is good in the interoperability department.
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Thanks for your excellent advice, everyone.
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