Linux Remote Networking Tips and Tricks

“I’ve toyed with the idea of setting up a central file server,
but there are already too many computers cluttering up the place.
So my office PC is the “master” computer; that is where I keep all
of my data files. The studio computer holds music and photos. The
laptop is random. No Network Shares

“One option is to set up some NFS shares. This is pretty easy,
and I might do it someday. Or some Samba shares, since I keep a
couple of Windows PCs around for testing. But I don’t use either of
those because I rely on SSH and SSHFS. SSH is a reliable old
standby every computer user should know how to use; it’s secure and
endlessly adaptable.

“Installation and Setup

“On Debian, Ubuntu, and other Debian derivatives, you need both
openssh-client and openssh-server installed. On Fedora and CentoOS
it’s openssh-clients (thanks a lot for silly package name
differences, folks!) and openssh-server. The installer will
automatically set them up so you can be lazy and not change the
default configurations.”

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