Re: [tlug] Networking two Linux computers harder than Linux toWindows?

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Godwin ,

I'm afraid I found your comments to be not very helpful or insightful.
> For the same reason that instructions don't say that you're supposed to
> move the mouse on its surface if you want the cursor to move on the
> screen....Of course software isn't going to run if you don't start it...

There are plenty of examples of software that are available and running 
simply by having downloaded them from the repositories.

MySQL and Apache, for instance, both started without me ever having to 
explicitly start them. The Gstreamer thumbnailer never had to be started 
explicitly. My update notifier never had to be started. I could probably 
go on if I really wanted to think about it.

So, if the instructions for how to make NFS start don't include any 
commands to start them, then it's not at all unreasonable to suppose 
that it, like the software listed above, it doesn't require them.

It is nowhere near the same level of obvious as moving my mouse around 
the screen.

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Dave M G
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
Kernel 2.6.20-15-generic
Pentium D Dual Core Processor