Getting Sidetracked
Posted by Skrud at Tuesday, November 1st 2005 at 10:23am
The problem with having courses about really interesting stuff is that I (and my lack of priorities) can very easily get sidetracked while “studying.” The irony of it is that the sidetracking starts with something that I’m studying. Tonight I was reading about NFS and figured it would be a really handy way of sharing files between my Linux box and my laptop.
So I looked up a few guides and got it working, added an automount rule to my NetInfo Database - but I couldn’t get write access. Something about how NFS treats uid’s … which coincidentally is what’s wrong with it as a secure protocol in general, which is why I was studying it in the first place…
Then I learned that I can set up Apple File Protocol on Linux with netatalk. Using howl, I can have Zeroconf Networking (à la Bonjour) between my Linux and Apple computers. There was even a tutorial on the Gentoo Wiki that took only a few minutes. Now my home directory is easily mounted as a Network drive on my PowerBook’s desktop. I can even tunnel the connection over SSH when I’m not home for secure operation. Which is pretty sweet, and totally painless to set up. It’s even running over TCP, so I didn’t have to bother with getting an AppleTalk server running.
The problem is that I did all this starting at 3am. I didn’t get much sleep (in fact, I’m not sure I even fell asleep). And what’s worse is I have to stay at ConU until about 10pm tonight… sigh…
Skrud, that’s awesome, i’ve been meanming to have some network mounts on my laptop, but never had much time to do so. Also i just noticed that you’ve added del.icio.us/drskrud
and some links are very nice :)
wow. i was gonna suggest Samba. but it looks like you have come up with an even cleaner solution. (although if you have a piece of shit windows box on your network, it might pay off to setup samba)
Samba in Tiger is … … … broken. I don’t know if 10.4.3 fixed it but it was broken. Also, samba is a configuration nightmare. There _is_ a windows box but I don’t really care to network it. Besides, I think hawk runs on Windows.
yeah i remember setting up samba. it wasn’t as easy as it should have been.
ms really made it hell with all different little things between versions of windows.( it is almost as if they didn’t want samba to work)
and now with cifs and cifs2. the whole samba to windows connectivity things is kinda a crapshoot.
Just use FTP for the windows box :P
for rendezvous, look at avahi. better than howl imho.