How to set up a home network

[Blackadam1518]

I just finished installing Pclinuxos 2013 KDE on my desktop and laptop.  and i would like to set up a small home network.  I have all of my media files on my desktop and it is where i mainly do all my work on.  I would like to be able to when i'm on my laptop for example in another room be able to access whats on my main pc and or if possible also if i'm away form home be able to log into it and move files back and forth if possible

How could i go about doing this if possible?

[scoundrel]

you could use Teamviewer8 .. just install it on all the machines you want access to ..

[Blackadam1518]

would it be like team viewer 7 where i would need to type in the password and on both pc's?

[7272andy]

Team viewer will work for you, especially for easy external network access. You only need to enter the passwords once if you add the machines to the computers and contacts list.

for local access you could either use teamviewer in lan access mode, or configure the shares using the pcc

[scoundrel]

would it be like team viewer 7 where i would need to type in the password and on both pc's?

think 8 is an upgrade to 7 .. think you can set a central password for all your machines

[Yankee]

Not knowing what Team viewer is, is that wireless, or does
it have to be a wired connection ?

[Blackadam1518]

for team-viewer it doesn't matter as long as you have internet access on both

[YouCanToo]

Not knowing what Team viewer is, is that wireless, or does
it have to be a wired connection ?

Team Viewer is a Remote Desktop Viewer. It requires both people have an internet connection. Can be wired or wireless.

[7272andy]

Team viewer can also be set to use LAN connections rather than/as well as internet connections in the advanced settings

[agmg]

You can also use SSH.
There is an amazing tutorial written by parnote for the magazine (thanks Paul!)

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201102/page18.html

I use SSH to connect my laptop with my kids' desktop at home.

[pclinmike]

You can also use SSH.
There is an amazing tutorial written by parnote for the magazine (thanks Paul!)

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201102/page18.html

I use SSH to connect my laptop with my kids' desktop at home.

+1
I use SSH to connect to my daughters laptop at uni 70 Miles away..  also from computer to computer at home using 'Fish' in 'Dolphin' file manager.

see     http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,87054.0.html

I also use 'Teamviwer' to do remote maintenance on my daughters laptop.

Do you have an home network set up ?.

[craesz]

I don't know about Teamviewer... ssh seems better if you need a secure access, but it seems that all you really need to do is share your folder. You can easily do that through PCC if you are on a local network. I question Teamviewer because I installed it and was cleaning my office when I looked up and saw conky showing A LOT of internet activity. Since nothing was being done on that desktop, conky had some reference to teamviewer so I opened System Activity. Apparently, a daemon had been installed and was communicating heavily with a server somewhere. I realize that it has to connect through the internet, but it seemed odd that it was always on and activity was occurring. So I killed the process and removed Teamviewer for now until I can have the time to figure out what Teamviewer is doing. If you are in the mode of being at a remote location, Teamviewer may be your option.

[scoundrel]

noticed the same with 8 .. since it runs in the background from boot .. 7 did not do this, unless you turned it on .. so I removed 8 .. and since I need this app for remote control of friends puters I'll be sticking with 7 + this way they can see what I am doing all the time .. with ssh the apps I start cant be seen by the remote client .. 

[Yankee]

Not knowing what Team viewer is, is that wireless, or does
it have to be a wired connection ?

Team Viewer is a Remote Desktop Viewer. It requires both people have an internet connection. Can be wired or wireless.

Sounds great, sounds like a plan.
I'll take a mental note, Team Viewer, for that.

Have to see it to believe it, of course.

thanks for the response.

Y