Home Network for 2 Fedora 19 computers

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asked 2013-09-05 16:37:34 -0600

maramyfriend
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updated 2013-09-05 19:50:31 -0600

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Hi,

I have two computers running Fedora 19. One is a desktop, the other my laptop. They connect to the internet and homenetwork on a wireless router.

All I want to do is if I am at my laptop I want to access files on my desktop and vice versa. I've googled and looked around and it seems like there is a plethora of ways to do this but most people are asking too specifically, like they have a VPN going through a virtual box etc etc. All I want is to access both computers. What is the easiest way of doing this?

Something simple please, I have tried reading the Samba instructions but it makes no sense to me. So if anyone can offer advice without me getting a doctorate in computer networking ;) to be able to understand whats going on.

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Thanks for the responses. I appreciate the clarification, I never removed the firewall as I figured that is a bad idea.

I will check out the firewall settings tomorrow and test it. Too tired and frustrated with it tonight. Will update tomorrow.

maramyfriend ( 2013-09-06 00:23:27 -0600 )edit

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answered 2013-09-06 06:41:15 -0600

pnadk

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Nice idea from rheldaemon. To make it even easier, in Dolphin you could open your home folder on the other computer by writing

sftp://user@ip/home/user/

in the address field and then accessing files just like on the local machine.

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Make sure that you enable the ssh server on both machines:

Enable the ssh server with the commands below.

systemctl enable sshd.service

systemctl start sshd.service

You might want to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and find the line with

#PermitRootLogin Yes

and change it to

PermitRootLogin No

hmaarrfk ( 2013-09-06 10:50:02 -0600 )edit

Thanks all for the help. Sorry, busy weekend with the kids but I got it to work. I cannot really specifically say what it was but the: systemctl enable sshd.service systemctl start sshd.service helped but also I never had NFS installed for some reason.

To elaborate on why I needed this, I wanted to have all my documents on my main PC but be able to open/edit them from my Laptop. Its mainly PDF and Libreoffice as I am studying (distance learning) so the ability to be away from my main computer and have access to the files was needed.

maramyfriend ( 2013-09-10 19:26:12 -0600 )edit

If you don't have too many files, why not simply use Dropbox? There are some other equivalent services that I think should work on Linux (never bothered using those other services though).

hmaarrfk ( 2013-09-11 15:30:25 -0600 )edit

Hi it works for me, thanks!

Luiz Mello ( 2014-06-08 12:04:17 -0600 )edit

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answered 2013-09-06 04:16:32 -0600

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I do not know how much data you have to transfer between your both installations but another way is to use ssh and copy the files via scp/sshfs. You have to enable in your firewall settings ssh (disabling the firewalls is always bad) and afterwards you can copy the directories/files and you can tunnel rsync(rsync is a great way to stay in sync) over ssh (maybe this is useful for you too: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/09/rsync-command-examples/). With ssh/rsync I keep hundreds of GB's in sync and it works great. Grsync is a GUI for rsync if rsync is to complicated for you. -HTH

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