I followed a thread on here about Linux and decided to try Mint, liked it and decided to update from old version of Suse 10.2.

Now on an elderly PC I run a web server and used to update things by running NFS server on the box and client on my desk top.

Now I can not find NFS client anywhere in Mint, the install packages programme finds nothing when I search for NFS.

Does it run by another name,is there something else I can use and how?

Cheers

Adrian

Aslking on here, as I understand you can get any question answered by the intelligent one that attend.

[Edited on 17-4-09 by AdrianH]

you could mount it from the command line

mint is basically ubuntu (debian based) so this may work

http://czarism.com/easy-peasy-ubuntu-linux-nfs-file-sharing

otherwise can't you use ssh / scp to transfer information ? (either from command line or gnome > places > connect to server has ssh option)

Cheers I will follow link and try to understand it all.


Adrian

Isn;t NFS part of the SAMBA tools look at installing SAMBA

You can install NFS by running Synaptic or

However I would suggest you use SSH to connect you can do this by either by using Nautilus, ---- start from either "Computer" or your home directory on the desktop click on the "File" menu then click "Connect to Server" item.

If you use a Mint version with the KDE desktop Konqueror has a broadly similar feature.

Or if you instal Filezilla you can use SSH via the SFTP option (SFTP is secure file transfer via SSH).


[Edited on 18/4/09 by britishtrident]

SSH Using Nautilus
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SSH using Nautilus

Step (2) just fill in the IP addres or name
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SSH file transfer (SFTP) using Filezilla
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