Re: using zeroconf/avahi/whatever to attach computers

thanks for htis,
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 22:52 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 12:45 -0700, Matt Price wrote:

What I want is one ofhte following:

1) cat a cat5 cable, plug it into the ethernet jack on one computer,
plug the other end into the other computer, and have the two computers
instantlyrecognize each other and allow or negotiate some kind of file
sharing.

This may work, but you'll definitely need a crossover cable (a regular
CAT5 patch cable won't cut it) or a hub between the two.

ok, i think i have a crossover cable somewhere (someone told me a while
ago that the need for crossover cables was a thing of hte past, but i'm
not particularly bothered). if i let network-manager manage the eth0
connection, should that work? or will i have to set up some kind of
dhcp thing (never waas very good atthat)

2) do something similar wirelessly -- that is, make a tiny ad hoc
network

This should be possible, but it'll be slow (vs. wired ethernet)

sure.

3) failing those, connet both laptops through the wireless router in my
home network, have the computers reognize and navigate to each other,
and allow sharing to go on that way.

This should work, too.

if those fail, i can just figure out the ip addresses and ssh in, i
guess, but i'd like to do it more elegantly if poss. thanks,

I routinely access the machines on my network using nautilus, nfs, and
ssh whenever I like, but I don't bother using auto-IPs, I just let
avahi/mdns work using my DHCP-acquired addresses.

is there a trick to doing that, or is it totally obvious? that'd be
great for me.

It works fine as long as the machines are on the same network segment
(or you set up something to forward multicast packets between segments).


i can get them on the same network, i think.

thanks,

matt

Matt



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