[NTLUG:Discuss] Good tutorial for connecting Linux boxen?

[david]

Wayne Dahl wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've googled for this, but there is such an information overload out 
> there, I'm kind of at a loss where to go.  I've tried a couple of 
> things, such as using Krdc and Krfb to connect my laptop to my desktop 
> machine, but I was unable to get that to work.  One of the things I want 
> to accomplish is accessing my vast music library on my desktop with my 
> laptop, with the ability to copy music over to my laptop or just use the 
> desktop as a streaming client to my laptop. 
>
> I know the easier of the two would be to copy music over.  I want to 
> achieve that first, figuring out how to access the music by streaming 
> later.  I also want to use the native linux methods for doing this as I 
> have NEVER been able to get Samba to work with my wife's Windows box for 
> some reason and can't see why I should use a Windows workaround to 
> network two linux computers.  I'd much rather use a native linux 
> networking environment.
>
> Here's the current scenario.  Both computers are behind a Smoothwall 
> firewall using DHCP to dole out IP addresses to the client computers.  I 
> don't even care about Internet access at this point (I already have 
> that) and I don't care about trying to access either computer from 
> outside the firewall.  I just want to be able to network the two 
> computers behind the firewall, in a peer-to-peer sort of way.  I'm open 
> to anything though.
>
> Basically, I'm looking at using the desktop as a file server to the 
> laptop (and later, my wifes Windows XP SP2 box).  Can someone point me 
> to a really good tutorial on how to set it up?  I know it's weird that 
> there is SO much information on the net, but it's hard to know which is 
> best to use.
>
> Laptop is running Kubuntu 8.04, KDE 3.5.10
> Desktop is running Kubuntu 7.04 KDE 3.5.6
>
> Thanks,
>
>   
Hope this helps.
http://czarism.com/easy-peasy-ubuntu-linux-nfs-file-sharing