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Ok, so I have a 160 GB NTFS drive in my machine. After 3 days of reading I finally figured out the concept of mounting drives especially when it comes ...
  1. 01-31-2006 #1
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    Red face Sharing in Linux

    Ok, so I have a 160 GB NTFS drive in my machine. After 3 days of reading I finally figured out the concept of mounting drives especially when it comes to NTFS.

    So now my problem is how do I share this drive or any drive for that matter? Do you have to install samba or is there another way that I can share a drive without anything downloads.


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    What do you mean exactly by shareing the drive? Are you trying to share it over a network, have it so other users can use this drive or what?
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    Quote Originally Posted by netdaemon862
    What do you mean exactly by shareing the drive? Are you trying to share it over a network, have it so other users can use this drive or what?
    yes that's exactly what i mean. Basically I am looking for a way to make the drive accessable to other user (Windows) on the network. User must have a linux account to be able to access this "share".
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    i normally use a http server from apache. You could set passwords for each dir or all dirs. The problem with that setup is that you have to click each file to download (or use some browser plugin or wget) but works fine when you want to share movies and such.
    http://httpd.apache.org/
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    wow I had no idea that file sharing was such a big hassel in linux.
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  6. 02-02-2006 #6
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    To share the files yu setup Samba and you can use SWAT or Webmin as a tool to configure it.

    apt-get install samba swat smbclient

    Once setup and configured it will look just like a windows file share.

    http://www.samba.org
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