[ale] public sharing of folders on linux - newbie question

[Jim Kinney]

The OP indicated a desire to share from linuxmachineA to any system with no
OS specified. As NFS on windows is poor and CIFS support on Linux is solid,
Samba makes sense.
There are web-based file-sharing tools but they're not as easy to use as
mounted drive space. Also, they use central file system and aren't designed
for desktop level file sharing.
On Feb 2, 2013 10:07 PM, "Geoffrey Myers" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
wrote:

> Why would he want Samba between two Linux machines?  I know it works, but
> go with NFS.
>
> On Jan 25, 2013, at 9:47 AM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>
>  You want Samba, which speaks CIFS.
>
> On 1/25/13 9:39 AM, Pete Hardie wrote:
>
>  Sounds like you want NFS - it allows you to export a filesystem/directory
> to be accessible as if it was local on another machine.  However, it
> requires setup on both machines.
>
>  Samba might be another option, but I've never tried it
>
>
> Pete Hardie
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> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Friends:
>>
>>  I am going to draw analogy from Windows here.
>>
>>  In Windows if I have machineA and has a folder called outgoing I can
>> share that folder for public access (as in I dont care who access that
>> within the LAN everyone can copy from/to that folder)
>>
>>  On machineB I can then do \\machineA\outgoing and access files/folders
>> from that location.  I may choose to MAP it or I dont have to.
>> The UNC way of accessing is quite handy in email s and stuff.
>>
>>  ==================
>>
>>  Having said that, what is the equivalent of that in Linux (between
>> Linux computers)
>>
>>  If LinuxMachineX has a folder /home/developmentuser/goodstuff and I
>> want to share that so anyone in the world can access that folder what is
>> required of me to that ?
>>
>>  On the same line another LinuxMachineY has to access the
>> LinuxMachineA's folder what is to be done by LinuxMachineB ?
>>
>>  Regards,
>> -Narahari
>>
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