Re: [Sheflug] pc->laptop linking

[Andrew Basterfield <nospam [at] lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk>]

ross wrote:

> On Tuesday 17 July 2001 15:40, you wrote:



> thanks :-)
> but can kde file manager be configured to see the directory structure and if 
> it were linked up to a windows machine, would i still have access? (sorry to 
> be a pain)


Sorry only told you how to do half of it, now on the workstation...

	mkdir /mnt/nfs

..to make the mount point for the laptop. Then make sure the ppp 
connection is OK between the machines by pinging each other. If it is OK 
you can mount the laptop with...

	mount -t nfs laptop:/ /mnt/nfs

as root. Replace 'laptop' with the hostname/IP address of the laptop.

All being well you should now be able to go into /mnt/nfs and find the 
contents of your laptop's harddisk, as if they were part of the 
workstations local filesystem. Just point kde file manager to /mnt/nfs. 
Beware, nfs over a serial link is VERY slow, even at 115,200 baud. Don't 
expect to be doing anything in a hurry (and if your laptop is as old as 
mine is, check it has 16550A serial ports not 16450 or the fastest you 
will be able to run the link at is 19200 baud).

You want to connect the laptop to an MS Windows machine or the 
workstation to talk to an MS Windows laptop? The serial ppp connection 
can be made to work, but I ended up writing a program that emulates a 
Hayes compatible modem to get MS Windows dialup networking to talk to 
linux pppd across a null modem cable.

If the workstation was running MS Windows then you would need a windows 
NFS client to access the NFS server on the laptop (all cost £££ no 
freeware available when I last looked). Alternatively you could try to 
use MS Windows file sharing by running a samba server on the laptop 
aswell but that is outside the scope of this mail at this late hour.

In short, don't do it. Stick to linux.

Andrew

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