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

[Jim Kinney]

Easiest way is to run httpd on your system and put public docs for
read-only in ~/public_html

If remote people _have_ to read-write stuff, then it's a bit trickier: NFS
or samba (CIFS). NFS is standard *NIX way and windows users can't access
it.You can use CIFS (samba) and windows users can access. You _can_ use
both at the same but the file locking for writes get messy. *NIX _can_
access CIFS files pretty easy but windows has a hard time with NFS files.

You can also do this over an ssh connection with a gui called filezilla.
It's available for all platforms. It allows rw access based on user
permissions on the file server.

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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