I have two laptops behind the same router. Both connect to the internet just fine. One is Windows XP Media Center Edition and the other is Ubuntu 6.06. I'm used to using Windows file sharing to share files between Windows laptops. I want to do something similar now between the Windows and Linux laptop. I just care about reliability, speed, and convenience, not security. What are my options and how do I do it?
2006-12-30 14:52:41 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
you need to install samba on your linux machine in order for windows to see your linux files.
on linux, you need to mount the windows share using the mount command. you'll need to use type "cifs".
if you can't figure it out, you could always just use IIS WebDAV on windows and Apache WebDAV on Linux. Same concept and it lets you access files just as you normally would but using the HTTP protocol.
2006-12-30 15:07:00 · answer #1 · answered by thepinky 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you dont element out which version of linux your utilizing, your significant requirement will be samba, it truly is what linux makes use of to percentage records with abode windows, you should also ascertain that both pcs are interior a similar workgroup and that document sharing or folder sharing is setup besides. try popping over to the samba web site that has some strong information on installation pcs on your challenge
2016-12-01 08:44:35 · answer #2 · answered by butlin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all your windows xp file format needs to be fat 32 for linux to read it... next windows can not read linux file format... solution is you need to have a fat32 partition for the data so that both linux and windows can read it.. depending on what file data you are using on each system will determine what can be shared between each system MS Office (windows system) Openoffice 2 ( linux system) this type of data can be shared altered and saved
2006-12-30 15:18:57 · answer #3 · answered by Carling 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋