How to organize a local network between Ubuntu machines without using Samba? Perhaps NFS?

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Vsevolod2011-05-04 15:59:37

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Vsevolod, 2011-05-04 15:59:37

And tell me, who implements the local one between Ubuntu machines, or between some other Linuxes? Samba, which is in Ubuntu out of the box, I really don’t like, it slows down and is buggy and does not mount remote computers to the file system, but shows them only in Nautilus.

I have not come up with anything else, how to use NFS (Network File System). I don't like editing the /etc/exports file manually and then executing the mount command and remembering the ip address of the computer I need, so I looked for some NFS tricks. I didn’t find anything, and then I made myself a bunch of NFS server and client, the autofs package, the avahi package and two self-written plugin scripts for Nautilus.

As a result, I can:
a) share folders in NFS in two clicks in Nautilus
b) also, in two clicks, get in the /net folder a list of currently enabled network computers that have NFS shares, while the computers are mounted in my file system in the /net folder in the form
/net/<computer-name>. local
i.e. I can access them from a terminal or some other file manager.

So here are two questions:

1. Maybe all this is garbage and I'm bothering in vain, and is there some other way to organize a fast and convenient local network between Linux machines? How do you organize a local network?

2. If, after all, nothing like this exists, does anyone need such a stray? If needed, I will try to arrange it as a deb-package and ppa so that you can easily use

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Anton Spirin, 2011-05-04
@dude_sam

Excuse me gentlemen.
Couldn't help it: is this system planning to take over the desktop segment? I’m just struggling with my Ubuntu computer (more in the aspect of Active Directory), it boiled up ...

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Vas3K, 2011-05-04
@Vas3K

I am tormented by vague doubts that you do not know about fstab?

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Riateche, 2011-05-04
@Riateche

Try Avahi in combination with NFS.

If you have an NFS share set up, you can use Avahi to be able to automount them in zeroconf-enabled browsers (such as Konqueror on KDE and Finder on Mac OS X). wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Avahi#NFS

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Sergey Fedotov, 2011-05-04
@FSA

> does not mount remote computers to the file system, but only shows them in Nautilus.
What is it??? And so?
mount -t cifs 192.168.1.100:/C$ /net/my_windows -o user=FSA
I agree, the method is of course slightly perverted, but if you really want, you can. Read about options man mount.cifs

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Vsevolod, 2011-05-05
@sevka_fedoroff

I absolutely agree with you, admin4eg. I don't need any asset directories, windows network, etc. I have a fleet of exclusively Linux machines, and I just want a normal local to sit down from them. Ubuntu, the friendliest distro out there, still can't do that. And it's outrageous. Boiled :)

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Siddthartha, 2011-09-08
@Siddthartha

the right thing. samba is buggy pipets.

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4twilight, 2011-05-05
@4twilight

1. Maybe all this is garbage and I'm bothering in vain, and is there some other way to organize a fast and convenient local network between Linux machines? How do you organize a local network?
As an option - zeroconf (avahi for example) and a config for nfs or some other type of extension of local resources.
I haven’t tried it myself - I’m getting by with the configured nfs-ball so far.