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

[Pete Hardie]

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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