setting up simple filesharing

[Davy]

hi guys! it me again.

well, i've been beating my head against the wall again setting up nfs to share files between my linux laptop and my linux desktop. obviously, it doesn't work. so... i was wondering if there was anything, at all, easier to use for file sharing between two linux boxes besides nfs?

like i said, i've got two linux boxes and they're both behind a router which uses dhcp to run the network. both machines are using mandrake 9.2 (with the 2.4.22-10mdk kernel) and i've tried to use nfs to get the two talking together. as it is now, both machines are able to connect to the internet, but there's no contact between the two. all the "how-to's" that i've been reading wanted me to use a server-client setup, but i've only got a peer-peer setup, so i'm guessing that that's my problem.

i don't know if it's of any consequence: i was able to get these two machines to talk once when my desktop was using windows 98 and when this laptop was using windows xp. the hardware hasn't changed at all... just the os's.

either way, thanks for your guesses, guys and gals.

-davy

[DSwain]

Samba would handel that problem I would think, but that's for windows shares... you could always try that too, it'd be accessable i figure at least. And then you can use LinNeighborhood to mount them nice and easily too.

[GaryJones32]

you can get nfs working !!

first chore is to get that router to hand out static addresses rather than dynamic.......
what kind of router you got there ?????
you got web based acces to it's configuration yes ??

[Davy]

why would i need a router that hands out static ip's? the information that i've been reading tells me that i can assign an a range if ip's to my allow config files. which, i'm assuming, will let any computer attached to the other computers. hmmm.... i'll look into it.

my router's a netgear mr814v2 (a wireless a/b router with 5 physical connections)

web-based access works fine. i'm even using it right now.

honestly, i think that my understanding of nfs is tainted too much by the basic microsoft peer-to-peer network setup that i've beens so accustomed to. trying to get something else to work that itself works on a different philosophy (i guess you could call it a philosopy) is giving me a tough time. so, i was just asking if there was another easier way to get this stuff done that resembled that peer-to-peer network a little more.