[PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer
Tom
tgrom.automail at nuegia.net
Sat Jan 9 11:20:28 UTC 2021
On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:50:44 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:23:17 -0800
> Tom <tgrom.automail at nuegia.net> dijo:
>
> >On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 21:04:56 -0800
> >John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Yeah, yeah, NFS. Bah. I've tried to get it to work several times
> >> over the years, and I've always failed.
> >>
> >> What would be really cool would be a GUI application that would do
> >> this for me. No list of half a dozen scripts that probably won't
> >> work. I just want to launch an app, have it search the local
> >> network for other Linux computers, and present me with the
> >> drives/folders that I might want to connect to.
> >>
> >> Why does this not exist?
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> >
> >What specifically is your failure message when you've tried to setup
> >NFS?
>
> I can't tell you that because the last time I tried was a couple of
> years ago and I have no recollection of the exact messages. If I
> recall correctly, there were no error messages; it just failed to
> work. _______________________________________________
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NFS has had several revisions since then. Perhaps you should give it
another try. Gentoo has a very good guide on their wiki on it.
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