[TriLUG] Public folder on Debian

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Brian Grawburg via TriLUG wrote:

> Two computers on same network. One running Debian Jessie and mine running 
> Wheezy. I want to share the Public folder on the Jessie machine so that I can 
> periodically grab a file from it to work on. There are no other machines that 
> will need to see the file. Seems simple to me. The Jessie unit gives me no 
> option to 'Share' the folder. Do I need to mount it (/etc/fstab) on my 
> machine? How do I make it shareable on the other unit?

I gave up on NFS a long time ago. I was winding up with stale file handles all 
the time and would have to reboot a hung machine. I tried automounting NFS but 
it wouldn't mount/umount reliably and I'd wind up with stale file handles again.

For directories that need to be sync'ed, I use passwdless rsync run from cron. 
Sure you have to wait for the next rsync, but that's not a problem for the 
workload I have. Some directories are rsync'ed every hour and some every day. 
It's been working perfectly for years.

Joe

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