If you are sharing folders between to Knoppix boxes, why not just use ssh? Here's what you do. As root, start ssh on the server box like this: /etc/init.d/ssh start If both boxes are running from the CD you will need to give the user knoppix a password. As root, do this: passwd knoppix Then enter you new password. You can then either ssh into you server box from a shell like this: ssh user@ip_for_serverbox or you can access your folders using fish in konqueror. To do the later, simply open konqueror and type the following in the url address bar: fish://user@ip_for_serverbox You will then have access to all the files and folders on the server box through konqueror. If you want to do this all from the command line in an ncurses environment, then I recommend that you look into using mc to ssh into your server box.