Re: synchronizing desktop machine and laptop

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

> wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
> > Since I am never without my laptop, I just use NFS and symlink from my
> > various home machines (mixture of linux, solaris, and hp/ux) onto the
> > laptop via 'amd'.
> 
> That works until you're working on a machine behind an IPmasq gateway and
> try to NFS-mount something in the Greater Out There, at which point the
> server Out There logs messages from amd about the insanity of the source
> request because its source port is mis-mapped, in turn because the IPmasq
> gateway itself is using the intended port, so that the masq code picks a
> replacement at random.

  well, don't try to do that. :)

> My solution is simply to ssh into my main machine, to run XEmacs there.
> I have yet to find a synchronization scheme that isn't either horridly
> hackish or prone to failure in the face of unexpected networking
> weirdnesses like IPmasq.

  My laptop is always on the same internal net as the machine I want to be
using, so that's not an issue.  To each his own user & network specific
way. :)

-bp