Re: Mac and Linux

["Tom Haskins-Vaughan" <user=1517@nabble.blu.org>]

 Sorry, just to be clear, both my client and server are on my home (as in 
house) network behind a cable router. I want to share my home (as in 
/home) directory. 

Ruben Safir wrote: 
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:40:39AM -0500, Ben Holland wrote: 
>> If hes home then security doesn't really matter unless you are going over 
>> wireless in which case you should be connecting via an encryption and that 
>> has nothing to do with the file sharing. 
> 
> He wants to connect to a GNU box in a remote location from home. 
> 
> You want to do this with NFS without FreeSwan? 
> 
> Ruben 
>> Also installing linux on a mac when 
>> you want the benefit of the mac doesn't make sense. For internal home 
>> networks NFS is just fine, if you are going external the problem is a bit 
>> bigger, we just had a discussion on what to do about that. I've had a fun 
>> time trying to do streaming media from one computer to the other (have one 
>> dvd mounted on linux and trying to play it on my mac) and for stuff like 
>> that NFS doesn't work well, but to be fair, it's breaking the use for nfs. 
>> If anything for huge slow files, copy em to your mac desk top, edit or do 
>> whatever, and put em back on the linux comp. ~Ben 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Ruben Safir <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>> 
>>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:30:14AM -0500, Ben Holland wrote: 
>>>> I like nfs for that if it's on the same network. It's inc readably easy 
>>> to 
>>>> set up an nfs on Linux and pick it up on mac. 
>>> 
>>> its not that secure if he's home. 
>>> 
>>> The easiest thing is to put GNU/Linux on the mac and use 
>>> version control the sftp ssh or ssh over rsync 
>>> 
>>> Ruben 
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Tom Haskins-Vaughan < 
>>>> [hidden email]> wrote: 
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> My current set up is a F7 server and an Ubuntu 7.10 client using 
>>>>> NFS/NIS. I'm looking into getting a Mac for web development. What's 
>>> the 
>>>>> best way to integrate a Mac client with a Linux server? I'd like to 
>>> have 
>>>>> seamless access to my home directory from my server. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> TIA 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tom 
>>>>> 
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