Developing locally: Connecting a PC to a linux-box

[Nick Carlson]

I have a computer running mandrake with a full install, a laptop running windows XP sp2, and a 10 foot crossover cable.

My question is, how do I network these machines together. I have apache,php and mysql running fine on the linux computer. Now I want to be able to develop my sites on my laptop, and upload and run them on my linux box.

Can someone point me to any tutorials on the web that will teach me how to hook all of this up?

Thanks.

[Technosailor]

Well, run an FTP server on the Linux box and make sure you have an FTP account with access to the DOCROOT of apache. FTP to that server and you're good as gold.

Lovely thing, TCP/IP is.

[Luke Morton]

[platinum]

setup samba so you can access the folder directly as a 'normal network share', sooooo convenient

[Nick Carlson]

Is samba really my answer?

On my windows machine, I want to be able to type in "linuxhost.com" (or some other arbitrary domain name), and have it access usr/local/apache/htdocs/linuxhost.com.

I already have my linux machine set up for virtual hosting, so I'm good there. I just need to hook up the windows manchine now.

Thanks.

[igor.kudela]

setup samba so you can access the folder directly as a 'normal network share', sooooo convenient

[igor.kudela]

Is samba really my answer?

On my windows machine, I want to be able to type in "linuxhost.com" (or some other arbitrary domain name), and have it access usr/local/apache/htdocs/linuxhost.com.

I already have my linux machine set up for virtual hosting, so I'm good there. I just need to hook up the windows manchine now.

Thanks.

the easiest and quickets is to use the host file but setting up a local dns would be wiser
btw this is a wrong forum

[platinum]

Is samba really my answer?

On my windows machine, I want to be able to type in "linuxhost.com" (or some other arbitrary domain name), and have it access usr/local/apache/htdocs/linuxhost.com.

I already have my linux machine set up for virtual hosting, so I'm good there. I just need to hook up the windows manchine now.

Thanks.

You can do both, I just have mine setup without using vhosts as I can access across the network just using http://serverhostname/sitefolder/ in any browser.

Samba just lets you access the folder directly, no messing around 'uploading' via FTP or SFTP or anything, just allows you can map a drive on your windows machine to point directly to your htdocs directory where you can work directly as if it was a regular folder.