i'd rcommend samba, check out www.samba.org for documentation. fedora comes with all of the samba software you'd ever need on your fedora install discs. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 00:23:39 +0200 To: tweniger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: network newbie > Am So, den 04.04.2004 schrieb Tom Weniger um 20:33: > > > I am looking forward to this help too. > > I have been trying to find a solution to setting up a simple network > > between a SMC router, DSL modem, a PC and a laptop without using the PC > > as a gateway/router. My current setup can ping the router, PC and laptop > > as well as have Internet access. How can I share files between them? > > Using ftp? > > If you mean file sharing between the PC and the laptop there are > different possibilities. If both systems are Linux or even Fedora based > then you could use NFS. That is the kind of native *NIX sharing model. > If you have Windows and Linux then certainly Samba would be a good > choice. FTP will work too but it has the disadvantage that this would be > session oriented while NFS and Samba offer you to mount remote shares to > you local system. > > > Virtually, > > Tom W > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl > Sirendipity 00:19:50 up 17 days, 8:01, load average: 0.46, 0.36, 0.29 > [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ] > my life is a planetarium - and you are the stars << signature.asc >> > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods. +( duncan brown +( duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxx +( http://www.linuxadvocate.net