[wellylug] NETBEUI on Ubuntu

[Daniel Pittman]

Gerald Roehrbein <Gerald.Roehrbein at oraforecast.com> writes:

> there are two other solutions you could use to descrease the
> complexity of copying files from one computer to another.
>
> If you develop at one system and want to deploy files you should
> install and configure rsync. With rsync it is possible to automate
> file transfer and keep files synchronized.
>
> Another way is to use a source code control system (SCCS) and copy the
> packages create with the SCCS to the destination, probably from
> development to stage test, extract it and than test it.

Subversion is probably the best option for a free tool here; you can run
the server happily on Linux and it has good, solid Windows and Linux
clients.

This also has the advantage that you have a running history of your
development, and that if something goes wrong you can easily back out
the faulty change -- or at least identify where it was.

> The next idea is to mount a remote file system vi NFS and than you can
> treat them like local files. There are NFS server for Windows
> available (in the X-WinPro package for example).

If you are going down this path the free-as-in-beer "Services for Unix"
package from Microsoft is a better choice than most others.  The NFS
client and server it offer do work quite well.

It also offers a Cygwin-alike tool set built on top of the enhanced
POSIX layer for Windows (formerly known as Interix) that SFU is built
on -- except that, unlike Cygwin, these tools don't suck. ;)

Regards,
        Daniel
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