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<H1><font color="maroon">Sharing Your Home</font></H1>
<H4>By <a href="mailto:jpollman@bigfoot.com">JC Pollman</A> and
<A HREF="mailto:bill.mote@bigfoot.com">Bill Mote</A></H4>
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<p>You move from computer to computer and from OS to OS but you need to
always be in your home directory. This article will show you how - in both
Linux and Microsoft Windows.
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<p><b>Disclaimer: </b>This article provides information we have gleamed
from reading the books, the HOWTOs, man pages, usenet news groups, and
countless hours banging on the keyboard. It is not meant to be an all inclusive
exhaustive study on the topic, but rather, a stepping stone from the novice
to the intermediate user.&nbsp; All the examples are taken directly from
our home networks so we know they work.
<p><b>How to use this guide:</b>
<ul>
<li>
Words encapsulated by square brackets like [Enter] indicate the depression
of a key on the keyboard or a mouse button [Mouse1]</li>
<li>
Words encapsulated by squiggly brackets like {your name here} indicate
data that will/should be substituted with "real" data</li>
<br>Text depicted in italics are commands you, the user, should type at
a prompt</ul>
<b>Prerequisites:</b> In order to have your home directory wherever you
go, you have to have it on your server, so make certain you have an account
on your server. You will also need the samba, nfs client, and nfs server
installed.
<p><b>Protocols:</b> We have seen the question: how do I share a linux
drive to window so many times in the newsgroups that it should never have
to be asked again. But it still continues to be asked. Windows use the
smb protocol to share drives - not tcp/ip. So to share a linux resource
you have to run the smb protocol on linux. Samba is the program that does
this. Linux, on the other hand, uses the tcpip protocol, and the nfs program
is used to share the resources. The protocols are completely different,
but they can be run at the same time and share the same resources. There
is a serious problem with locking the files if both protocols are sharing
the same resource at the same time, but for home use this really should
not be a problem. Security is also a concern and we would strongly recommend
that your "/home server" be behind a firewall and tcp wrappers be running.
<p><a href="misc/pollman/samba.html">Sharing home to a windows box</a>
<p><a href="misc/pollman/nfs.html">Sharing home to another linux box</a>
<p><a href="misc/pollman/final-thoughts.html">Some final thoughts</a>
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Copyright &copy; 2000, JC Pollman and Bill Mote<BR>
Published in Issue 50 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, February 2000</H5>
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