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Idea #16275: Ubuntu To Ubuntu Networking Wizard

Written by aikiwolfie the 6 Dec 08 at 15:50. Related project: ubuntu.com. Status: New
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It would be nice to have easy to setup networking that didn't require Samba. I run two Ubuntu PCs and have no need to network to any Windows PCs at all. I have also found the Samba implementation in Ubuntu to be very unreliable. Some days it works, other days it doesn't.

Please provide a wizard that allows a proper Linux network to be setup easily and quickly for desktop users.
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Written by aikiwolfie the 6 Dec 08 at 15:50.
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Yanqui wrote on the 7 Dec 08 at 00:42
If ssh is install you can use sshfs through nautilus

andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 7 Dec 08 at 09:23
This would probably be cooler if installed by default. Users should be able to access network files easily.

+1

mela1 wrote on the 7 Dec 08 at 13:43
A feature too long absent. +1 . Agree with andruks comment.

Yanqui wrote on the 7 Dec 08 at 19:19
One of the problems is that we don't really have a smb/cifs like filesystem. The unix roots of linux really promote centralized file servering, not really peer-to-peer filesharing. NFS really isn't a very good solution because of all the problems with mouting/unmounting. FTP would really be the next viable solution, but nautilus still has a few problems with doing this right. Also ftp isn't very secure, so that could pose a problem. ssh still requires one to set up users and permissions, which again could be a problem. Perhaps webdev might work, but that would require apache. I'm not sure about afs, but setup and administration of that is kind of a pain.

getglenn wrote on the 23 Jul 09 at 10:22
this is a GREAT idea... samba would seem to be overkill for an ubuntu-to-ubuntu connection...

i use it, but with every ubuntu upgrade something changes and it is a pain to reconfigure... i had my network working reliably but after upgrading to intrepid it takes forever to actually find a shared folder on the other computer

i believe there must be a SIMPLE solution but after reading many articles and forum posts, i can get have a workable network but i dont really understand how... which does annoy me somewhat

OpenNingia wrote on the 23 Jul 09 at 13:18
I believe NFS is not so bad. We only need a simple GUI to configure it.


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