Set up exports on "server", in file /etc/exports (apply with exportfs -a)ģ. Install nfs-kernel-server on that machine.Ģ. CIFS mounts if needed for example by a Windows-centric NAS.ġ. Although you can of course use NFS from/to Windows as well, I'd say maybe not for UNIX Windows sharing and with few specific needs, Warpinator/Winpinator. If things happen to work today they will not tomorrow.įor UNIX UNIX networking, certainly NFS. When using CIFS mounts Samba by and large of works but for "convenient graphical filemanager use" you throw GVFS into the mix and that by and large does not work not just as to Windows networking but also e.g. Otherwise and for use with Windows and from/to a graphical file manager, fairly partial to axrusar's SSH/SFTP tutorial which I believe I already spammed a link to above somewhere as well: viewtopic.php?f=42&t=367360 General tip: have the same users with the same UIDs on both server and clients so as to make it all fully transparent. It's just that many people stumble over UNIX-ownership/permissions on local filesystems as well. I myself use NFS most everywhere which, yes, is more or less the definition of dead simple on Linux has network filesystems behave exactly as local ones. Most easily for Mint Mint certainly, but there's also Android and Windows versions of it. It is (As I understand it, anyway) for MintMint, and not so much MintAnything. Still can't remember the name of that file shary thingy in Mint. Sort of like donating to Mint - (but I DO use Mint's features, hence the multiple donations over the years) It is just a pity that the only solution that is so flexible is proprietary.Īctually, it is so good that I'm thinking of buying a subscription for a year as a small donation, even though I won t use its features - just because it is so good. I can't remember the name, but it sounded great - just refused to work. It is what I hoped that quick and easy file sharing thing that came out with Mint a while ago would be.
Virtual entry into all the computers from whichever desk I am at, dragon droppings as long as I do a zip and unzip for multiple files.
Throw one of the Raspberry Pis into the mix, running Manjaro ARM and everything just goes out the window.Īdd NoMachine and 'Poof' everything is connected. Samba seems to work with 'most' mixed Windows and Linux systems and even Linux to Linux with more ease than setting up NFS (why is this so?). NFS should be dead easy between Mint (or 'any' Linux computers, yet rarely seems to work. Despite all the NFS and SAMBA stuff - I still find drag and drop from computer to computer using NoMachine to be so ridiculously easy within the single file (or zipped multiple files) limits, that I wonder why I bother with normal networking.