Monday 14 July 2008

SAMBA – HOW TO SHARE FILES WITH ANOTHER COMPUTER

When you connect in a LAN, you may want share your file with another PC in your network. There a different system disk between Linux and Windows. Windows actually use NTFS or FAT, Linux use SDA or SHA. So there will a crash when your friend from another PC with Windows OS while he download your file in Linux OS. When we use Windows, easily we can share our file with right click file than choose “share this file/folder”. But in Linux you must share your file with a toll called SAMBA. This utility can you install in ADD/REMOVE APPLICATION than type “samba” in Find box then install it.
To share your file and can see from Windows in another PC, open SAMBA application, then click “add share” than browse your file. Give some description, and you can make this file could be written by another user in network, or just make it visible.


You can also make some privilege for your file, with add user that can access your file in access bar. Type user that you want to access it.

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