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

[Lightner, Jeff]

If you’re just sharing between UNIX/Linux you’d want NFS as first poster said.

If you want to share with Windows you’d want samba as second poster said.

Note that you can use both (i.e. use NFS to share to other UNIX/Linux systems and samba to share to Windows) but don’t have to do so.





From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Hubbs
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 9:47 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] public sharing of folders on linux - newbie question

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<mailto: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<file:///\\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.

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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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