Loading Ubuntu Shares among ubuntu machines in LAN

I found this here. It’s been brought here so that I don’t miss it.

In this small Tutorial I will show you how to set up a working directory / file share between two or more Ubuntu Linux Computers.

We’re gonna share the directory /media/music on the Ubuntu Linux box ernie, in order to allow the other Linux box bert to access it and listen to ernie’s music, Let’s go!

1 – Setting up ernie (who is sharing the directory):

Just Execute the following commands in a Terminal on ernie

• At first, we need to Install the Packages which are needed in order to share the files via NFS:
  sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
• Now, edit /etc/exports in order to share our music folder!sudo nano /etc/exports and add the line
  

  # /media/music bert(ro,async,all_squash)

  # the following worked for me where 192.168.0.0/16 is the IP range of the LAN
  /media/music 192.168.0.0/16(ro,async,all_squash)

  ro means “read only”, so the others can not delete your files. If you wish to allow writing to this directory, use rw “read write” instead!

• Restart the NFS Server by executingsudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart
• We’ve configured ernie very fast, didn’t we? Now it’s bert’s turn

2 – Setting up bert (who is using the directory):

Execute the following commands in a Terminal on bert

• Install the needed “NFS Common” Package nfs-common
  sudo apt-get install nfs-common
• Create your a music directory which will contain ernie’s directory and which is located at /var/music:mkdir /var/music
• Mount ernie’s shared music directory to /var/music:sudo mount ernie:/media/music /var/music
• Now you can access the files from ernie in your local direcotry /var/music – Have Fun!
• If you wish to mount the Directory automatically each startup, just just need to modify /etc/fstab:Open the file using sudo nano /etc/fstab and append
  

  ernie:/media/music  /var/music     nfs r,hard   0  0

  (Use rw,hard instead of r,hard in case you shared the File as “read write” or you won’t be able to change files!)

3 – We’re finished

Setting up basic File Sharing between Linux computers isn’t as hard as everybody is saying, and I really hope this will help some Linux Beginners out there to manage it on their own.