Hi, On Sunday 14 January 2007 8:29 pm, Vincente Aggrippino wrote: > Just an alternative perspective to this. If you do mix Windows and Linux > on your home network. You will need to familiarize yourself with Samba > (ref: www.samba.org). This is a valuable skill to have. There are > interfaces and tools that are supposed to make it easier, but they don't > always work as expected. Samba can be complex, but it is well documented. this is not 100% true. Regarding file sharing, today I would rather go and use WebDAV (Web based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) shares than Samba shares. WebDAV is a protocol extension of the HTTP protocol and thus easily to manage and secure even through firewalls, proxyable (is there such a word?) to other LANs, etc. In the Wintendo world this is known as "Microsoft Web Folders", and they work pretty neatly under various operating systems, even without those tedious Samba broadcasts, etc. Setting it up on Linux requires an Apache server and either the default mod_dav + mod_dav_fs (in standard Apache source distribution) or by package manager packages for all distros available. For a more featureful WebDAV server go for Catacomb [http://catacomb.tigris.org], it will use a MySQL server additionally for storage and can perform server side queries, versioning, Access Control Lists, etc. Or if you want to live in the Java world go for an Apache Slide based server (slower). Hmmm, got carried away from the core topic. Hope you guys don't mind ... Guy -- Guy K. Kloss Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences Room 2.63, Quad Block A Building Massey University, Auckland, Albany Private Bag 102 904, North Shore Mail Centre voice: +64 9 414-0800 ext. 9585 fax: +64 9 441-8181 eMail: G.Kloss at massey.ac.nz http://iims.massey.ac.nz
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