Thank you sunburnt, lwill and jrb for all those valuable comments.

-saji

Hi saji; To my knowledge no Puppy comes with the Samba server. Barry put it in years ago at my prodding, and since has taken it back out... It`s only 4 files for the Samba server, Puppy already has Samba client. Full Samba install is about 40 MB, BIG... ChoicePup has a 14 MB SFS file.file transfer ...

Hi All,
Could somebody suggest me a minimalist puppy distribution for a file server, with SAMBA and NFS.
thanks,
-saji

saji wrote:while trying to connect, the gmpc shows the following error :
the error code 13: problems connecting "192.168.0.10" on port 6600 : Connection refused

Solved the above connection error problem.
I need to comment the bind_to_address localhost in the mpd.conf file

Hi saji Can only suggest PMing gposil, as it was he who had it working... http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=16554 refer to this thread & he may answer here, for everyone's benefit, if you ask nicely :wink: good luck Aitch :) I PMed gposil regarding this. Hope gposil h...

Hi, Aitch, sorry for the delay in reply and I could access the machines only today.

Installed nfsd-2.2.pet in server. But while trying the NFS, I got the error message RPC error: Program Not registered.. Could you please help me to solve this issue ?
thanks,
-saji

In a console/rxvt terminal, type the command ifconfig and post the output here. Béèm , here is the ifconfig -a results on two machines puppy-1 pc # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:20:15:21:FD inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTIC...

Hi All, I have two puppy machines connected with a Cross Cable. the Puppy-1 PC is used for browsing through an ADSL modem connected with an Ethernet card. An another Ethernet card is used to connect Puppy-2 PC. The problem is that when I connect the internet with Puppy-1 PC, I could not connect to P...

Thank you very much, Aitch.
I will let you know the developments tomorrow.

-saji

Hi All,

How I can setup a NFS server in puppy.

thanks in advance for all your help
-saji

thanks disciple.

while trying to connect, the gmpc shows the following error :
the error code 13: problems connecting "192.168.0.10" on port 6600 : Connection refused

In gmpc Preferences > Connection you must enter the IP address of your server in the "Host:" field. Now restart gmpc, or just press "Connect". Obviously mpd must be running on your server. And another tip; in gmpc Preferences > Music Dir Fetcher you must set the directory path t...

Hi All, I have two pcs installed with Puppy 4.2.1. and connected both with a wired LAN. My purpose is to share files/folders/drives between them. Tried FTP , but the sharing is limited only to /root/ftpd folder. symlinks are not working here. How can I setup a Client/Server or any other networking s...

I want to shutdown PC-1 after use, but I still need to PC-2 ( music server) continue its "duties" Is it possible with MPD client/server setup? Yes. MPD is installed on your server, and is left running as a daemon. On your client computer you install one of the (many) MPD frontends, such a...

tempestuous, Thanks for the links

tempestuous wrote:hat sounds to me like a complex use of software for a relatively straightforward task

I want to shutdown PC-1 after use, but I still need to PC-2 ( music server) continue its "duties"
Is it possible with MPD client/server setup?

-saji

See one of the howtos e.g. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22363 if you want to set up a Samba server, which is like normal Windows "file and printer sharing". Otherwise you could set up an ftp server with software built into Puppy (look under network or something in the ...

Hi,
I want to convert my old pc ( PIII 450 Mhz - 128 RAM, 500GB SATA) in to a File/Music Server. How can it possible with Puppy Linux? Please give your ideas.
thanks
-saji