networking between fedora and macos

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 00:23, Trevor Smith wrote:

> 
> Both laptops are connected and working fine with the router (both 
> wirelessly). I can use the new Mac laptop to access httpd (apache) 
> running on the Fedora laptop and to update a MySQL database on the 
> Fedora laptop with a web/php-based interface I have set up on the 
> Fedora laptop. So the connections are fine.
> 
> Now, what is the simplest way to actually "network" the two machines? 
> Samba? (I hope not, since setting it up would not be what I'd call 
> "simple".) Something easier?

To just transfer files the easiest way is to use scp.  scp uses ssh so
it is secure to use particularly over wireless.

Hopefully you have wep enabled.  Even if you do have wep enabled I
recommend you use ssh and scp for access between the systems.  


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