[Bulk] Re: Understanding Local Networking - help please?

[DB]

On 09/16/2009 01:46 AM, Michael Semcheski wrote:
> I think getting Samba setup is potentially difficult - you don't 
> describe it in enough depth to say what exactly the problem is (my 
> guess - you need to access the machine by using its DNS name or IP 
> address, the "browsing the network neighborhood" doesn't even work all 
> the time on a properly configured Windows network.)
>
> However, if its a relatively small amount of traffic between Linux 
> machines, I would be more inclined to use ssh / scp / sftp.  It takes 
> a little effort to setup (generate RSA keys, copy the public key to 
> the other machine*, etc.)  It is very convenient once its setup.  You 
> can also use something like filezilla, winscp, or best of all sshfs.
>
> * something like the following works:
>     cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user at othermachine "cat - >> 
> .ssh/authorized_keys"
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:36 PM, DB <Freddog_de at yahoo.co.uk 
> <mailto:Freddog_de at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     On 09/15/2009 11:56 PM, Steve Searle wrote:
>
>         Around 10:34pm on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (UK time), DB
>         scrawled:
>
>

Thanks Michael,

It turns out I have an installed Firewall I wasn't aware of which had to 
be opened for Samba & Client, and that the smb & nmb services were 
disabled....  So at least I can see all the attached machines now.

I'll take a look at ssh & co.

Thanks again

Dave

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