Sharing Folders with PCLinuxOS Machines

[dylan420]

I have two machines fully updated running PCLinuxOS 2011.09 KDE4 2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs kernel.
I wish to share folders between these two machines.
I do not want these folders to be visible to windows machines.
In Control Center, I see options for Sharing, and Network Sharing.
Such as: SMB shares, NFS shares, and WebDAV shares.
I don't know which approach to take and I would like opinions before I explore.
I am asking for advice and opinions on what would be a practical, secure way to do this.

[pags]

If you run ssh servers on the machines, take a look at installing sshfs.

Here's a little more detail.

[dylan420]

I am considering taking the steps as described in this post:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,93375.0.html

[pags]

Samba (SMB, now known as CIFS) will be visible to Windows.

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I do not want these folders to be visible to windows machines.
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Otherwise, it's a good path to follow...

[AS]

I am considering taking the steps as described in this post:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,93375.0.html

Of course, that's also an option.
You can restrict the access to the shared folders by specifying the IP addresses of the allowed hosts:
Host Allow:  192.168.1.100
This will restrict the access to a single remote machine instead of the whole local network, change the IP address accordingly to your LAN setup.

AS

[Just18]

There is NFS and also FISH ......  might be more suitable for what you need.

[dylan420]

After reading about the different methods of sharing drives or directories between linux machines, I have decided to go with NFS.
I am going to be following this tutorial:   
Setup NFS server/client  http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=66668.0

[Just18]

I use NFS for sharing my local repository, but have to say that Fish is the easiest of all .....  practically no set up

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,80916.0.html

[pags]

I use NFS for sharing my local repository, but have to say that Fish is the easiest of all .....  practically no set up

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,80916.0.html

fish is ssh-based.  I think it may be deprecated by sftp (I find sftp:// more reliable in Dolphin/Konqueror now, than fish://, though fish is still used in mc).  sshfs is also ssh based (so similarly, little setup), however it mounts to an actual local directory, and is then application agnostic.

[mantis3dfx]

I found an excellent article in the magazine for walking you through networking PCLOS using the features already available, WITHOUT adding/downloading other apps which when viewed along with the original apps, simply adds to the complexity and therefore confusion. 
Problem is, like so many other excellent tutorials on the web, most don't appear to have been updated to suit evolving changes to the system, and are a couple of years old.  If only those excellent tutorials were "tweaked" along with the system evolution, most people wouldn't be having these issue's.
Here's an example of such an article, which you get part way through, only to find after you've committed to the tutorial, that the structure of the "PCLinuxOS Control Center" has been changed enough since the article was written that you come up against a dead end part way through.

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200909/page05.html

[Just18]

I found an excellent article in the magazine for walking you through networking PCLOS using the features already available, WITHOUT adding/downloading other apps which when viewed along with the original apps, simply adds to the complexity and therefore confusion. 
Problem is, like so many other excellent tutorials on the web, most don't appear to have been updated to suit evolving changes to the system, and are a couple of years old.  If only those excellent tutorials were "tweaked" along with the system evolution, most people wouldn't be having these issue's.
Here's an example of such an article, which you get part way through, only to find after you've committed to the tutorial, that the structure of the "PCLinuxOS Control Center" has been changed enough since the article was written that you come up against a dead end part way through.

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200909/page05.html

Mag articles are dated and published -- so not editable.

So, maybe you could update such an article and have it published in the mag 

[YouCanToo]

I found an excellent article in the magazine for walking you through networking PCLOS using the features already available, WITHOUT adding/downloading other apps which when viewed along with the original apps, simply adds to the complexity and therefore confusion. 
Problem is, like so many other excellent tutorials on the web, most don't appear to have been updated to suit evolving changes to the system, and are a couple of years old.  If only those excellent tutorials were "tweaked" along with the system evolution, most people wouldn't be having these issue's.
Here's an example of such an article, which you get part way through, only to find after you've committed to the tutorial, that the structure of the "PCLinuxOS Control Center" has been changed enough since the article was written that you come up against a dead end part way through.

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200909/page05.html

You might have a look at the PCLinuxOS knowledge base here http://pclinuxoshelp.com under the how-to section

[panex]

I found an excellent article in the magazine for walking you through networking PCLOS using the features already available, WITHOUT adding/downloading other apps which when viewed along with the original apps, simply adds to the complexity and therefore confusion. 
Problem is, like so many other excellent tutorials on the web, most don't appear to have been updated to suit evolving changes to the system, and are a couple of years old.  If only those excellent tutorials were "tweaked" along with the system evolution, most people wouldn't be having these issue's.
Here's an example of such an article, which you get part way through, only to find after you've committed to the tutorial, that the structure of the "PCLinuxOS Control Center" has been changed enough since the article was written that you come up against a dead end part way through.

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200909/page05.html

You might have a look at the PCLinuxOS knowledge base here http://pclinuxoshelp.com under the how-to section

That howto is out of date as well. For example it tells you to go Sharing>Manage Samba Shares and enable Allow All Users. But manage samba shares does not exist anymore, and there are no options to simple allow all users anywhere else in PCC from what I can tell.