SSH and OOo

[Stew Schneider]

Kelly L. Fulks wrote:
> First if you are doing Linux to Linux, I would use NFS instead of Samba
> to do the networking.  
I've had a little time to play with it, and here's what I found:

1. I'm networking Linux to Linux, using an ssh connection, rather than Samba
2. I can drag an OpenOffice document to my desktop from the remote 
machine and open it
3. I can open a non-OpenOffice document in gedit just by clicking on it
4. If I click on an OpenOffice document, I get a dialog asking for my 
password on the IP of the remote machine. That password is the same as 
the password/username on the local machine. The dialog refuses to accept 
the password, and returns, this time without the username noted.
5. Clicking cancel gets me a "General Internet Error" dialog from 
OpenOffice.
> If you want everything to happen automatically
> there are a few technologies that you might want to look into.  First
> look into NIS for your passwords (NIS is a kind of domain authentication
> for Unix and has been around for a couple of decades now, it used to be
> called YP or YellowPages).  The file server could also be your NIS
> server and then your passwords would stay the same between the two
> machines.  NFS for your sharing of drive space is easy to setup when the
> username/userid's match between the two machines.  Then you could look
> at autofs on the "client" machine so that the drive space would mount
> on-demand and unmount when not needed.
>   
Since neither machine "travels" (both are Desktops) I'd just as soon 
have a mount point in fstab, but for the life of me I can't get that 
going. Do you have a link to a good tutorial?

Thanks!

stew