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Simple file transfer
Given two Linux boxes on a LAN, what's the simplest way to transfer files between them?
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Forcing Linux NFS client to reconnect to server after NFS is disconnected
Is there a way to force a Linux client to reconnect to a NFS server after it has lost its connection? The client eventually notices the server is back and resumes working just fine. I'm just ...
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How to cd to a Windows file share?
At work, I spend a lot of time manipulating files on a networked computer that's running SME Server (but that's set up for Windows filesharing, if that somehow makes a difference).
I have been ...
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How to share files between Linux and Windows?
I am wondering, is there any way to easily share a folder between Linux and Windows?
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How to setup a “data” partition shared by multiple Linux OS'es?
Currently I have a NTFS partition that contains shared data. My rationale is, NTFS doesn't have any idea about file permissions, so I won't have any trouble using them in a multi-boot system ...
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Automatically mount network drive when available
I have a NAT drive, that is accessible via SMB. I have an entry in fstab to mount it at boot.
But if the drive is not switched on it is not mounted during boot and I have to manually mount later.
(The ...
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Which filesystem to use for a partition shared with a parallel windows instalation?
On my new PC I want to install both Linux and Windows, each on their own rather small partition, and put the big rest of the 1 TB HDD in a further partition (plus swap). Which filesystem should I use? ...
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Copy from linux to windows every minute
I currently quickly setup a way to copy files from my linux machine to a windows share that multiple people can access, but I'm looking for a better way.
In Windows 7, I made a folder accessible to ...
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Network file sharing between Linux and OS X
I want to share a drive/folder over the internet from my Debian machine back home, such that I can mount it on my Macbook when I am on the move. Basically I want to store my music at home and just ...
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Sharing Mac Snow Leopard directory via NFS
I am running a Mac Pro using Snow Leopard (not server). I would like to share a directory with a linux machine. I have edited /etc/exports on the Mac to:
/Volumes/mstore/home/sdavis -maproot=root ...
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/mnt Directories Disappearing
I'm trying to mount some smb shares on bootup using fstab on a Kbuntu box. Here are the steps I using to accomplish this:
sudo mkdir /mnt/MyShare
Then I add this line to my fstab file:
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Setting up a family server
I'm very new to Unix, but after having become comfortable with bash over the past year and after having played with Ubuntu recently, I've decided to make my next computer run Ubuntu, and I think my ...
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Permissions issues for shared directory on a server
The setup is we have a VPS running Debian Squeeze, and I've set up a shared directory for us to share files. So far I've followed this guide:
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Why is my CIFS share showing the same files multiple times?
I asked this on ServerFault but received no response, so I figured I'd give it a try over here instead!
I have a Debian backup server running the FreeBSD kernel and a ZFS filesystem on which I store ...
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Create Temporary Samba Share
Is there a possibility to temporarily share a directory per Samba?
With python3 i can serve the current directory per HTTP using:
python -m http.server.
I'd like to do the same thing with Samba.
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Peer to peer~ish LAN storage
I have a distributed application that consists in a main CMS server where "human" users can upload videos, pictures (media content, basically) and a bunch of "players" that play those videos or ...
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How can I setup group permission for different user on multiple Linux installations?
I have two Linux installations on my computer, with /home on a different partition but shared for the two installs. And each install has a different username to avoid conflicts. The thing is, I'm a ...
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File sharing with Windows
I have a small home network consisting of two computers. One is running Windows 7 and the other Ubuntu 10.04. Neither computer is permanently on.
I am trying to set up file sharing between the two. ...
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Adding bindings for ed2k:// links with xdg-open?
I want to use a customized program to handle "ed2k://" links , it already got a "*.desktop" file , but how can I bind it with xdg-open as the default handler ?
Since I don't know the exact mimetype ...
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smbclient alternative for large files
I'm using smbclient to transfer a set of large files (80GB) nightly from a Linux system to a Windows share. Lately, for whatever reason, I've been getting I/O timeouts:
cli_push returned ...
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Sharing Linux Printer to windows
I want to share the printer connected to Linux with Windows machine, so that windows-user can print to this Linux printer.
How can I do this ?
P.S. I followed the ...
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socat reliable file transfer over TCP
I am aware of disadvantages of "wait->stop" design, that usually is proposed with netcat:
server$ cat test.dat | nc -q 10 -l -p 7878
client$ nc -w 10 remotehost 7878 > out.dat
(It's not reliable ...
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Share unchanging data from a central repository on a network
I have a bunch of different binary files (total size of all files is circa ~500GB) stored in a hard drive that is mounted to machine001.
I have 200 other machines that need to access this data for ...
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How to remove mounted locations that have been added using the mount command?
I've mounted few shared locations using the below command.
mount -t cifs /mnt/systemfolder -o username=name,password=password //10.10.1.1/My-Shared-Folder
A few incorrect locations* have been ...
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How to securely export a device (HDD)?
So I have a Scientific Linux 6.3 (RHEL clone so basically the question is Redhat related) machine called "B" (with an extra "A" HDD besides the system HDD) and a notebook with SL 6.3. They are in a ...
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rsync certain files, excluding the rest, ignoring .svn/ directory, recursively
I'm using rsync to copy some files from a share to another.
Recursively, I need to:
Delete files at destination that were removed from the origin
Only sync php and js files
Exclude every other file ...
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OpenBSD NFS server with Linux NFS clients — file size limit?
I've set up an NFS server on OpenBSD 4.9. The client is Arch Linux x86-64. The mount has no problems with small files but when trying to read large files (in the example, an 7.4G iso file) it will ...
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How to easily and securely share files on a linux system over the internet?
I can think of a couple of ways which are not that easy:
ftp - user needs ftp (or even ftps) client, active vs. passive, firewalls
https - only for download
webDAV - setup of apache is rather ...
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Installing afpfs-ng from source
I want to install afpfs-ng to get access to an AFP share from my Mac. I am running Debian and am following instructions from http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/175/17242, and I get
checking for a ...
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How to access a shared directory with Virtualbox OSE
I would like to share data between a VirtualBox OSE guest OS and the host. This location should be also writable by either of the two.
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A secure way to confine FTP login users to a single directory
I needed to provide multiple users FTP logins, some able to write, some only to read, to a single FTP root directory. I very much wanted that they not see of the file system anything above that ...
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How to give Read, Write Permissions using IPs in SAMBA
I want to give Read and Write access based on the IPs instead of the Users in SAMBA using smb.conf
This is the Text I copied from my smb.conf file.
[TEST]
comment = test
path = ...
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VirtualBox with aMule - How to configure network, port forwarding… properly?
for security reasons I am running aMule inside VirtualBox.
Guest and Host systems are Linux (to be more specific Arch 64 distro)
Host system has public ip directly connected to internet (no router)
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Light-weight alternative to Apache
In my set-up, I run (as root) ln -s ~/share /var/www. By doing this, anyone on the local network will access the ~/share directory by pointing their browsers at http://hostname/share. I use apache, ...
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How to access shared locations on a windows machine from a linux machine via terminal?
I’ve setup a Virtual CentOS machine and set up a bridged network and static IP so that it can communicate with other Windows machines in the network.
Currently, to access any shared directory, I ...
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The common practice to share file for all users on the same machine?
There is a powerful server with few users on it. Each user has gigabytes of data to process.
Sometimes a user may want to use other's file, and therefore writes output in other's folder.
What's ...
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How to share files Between RHEL and Ubuntu
I have installed RHEL 5.5 on VIrtual Box and Host system is Ubuntu 12.04. I can access the files of Ubuntu by using the sharing services of Virtual Box.
But how can I access the files of RHEL which ...
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Share files via bluetooth
I'd like to transfer files located on the harddrive of my laptop Acer Travelmate 4002 WLMi to my smartphone via bluetooth.
My system is Ubuntu 12.04.
I tried so far.
$ sudo service bluetooth start
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samba does not work when offline
I have recently set up a virtual machine and I want to share files between the host and the guest. Samba seems to be a perfect solution, and indeed it does all that I expect it to. However, if the ...
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Double SSH tunnelling for SMB shared folder
I am actually working from PC1 (using Mac OSX) on a distant computer(Linux) PC2 using SSH.
This distant computer PC2 does not have any connection to Internet but is in a network with a PC3 (Windows ...
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list Windows shared folders (samba) available in the local network? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get list of computers similar to what is shown under “Network” in Windows
I suspect the services shared by Windows (including shared folders) can ...
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Easily Share a folder with a Windows computer in Fedora 15 (Gnome 3)?
I was trying out Fedora 15 but couldn't figure out something: How do I share a folder?
When doing some Googling all I could find were forum posts on how to manually configure samba with smb.conf (a ...
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NFS sharing is read only
I have problem with NFS sharing. See my exports:
/export 192.168.1.11(rw,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check,sync)
/export/share 192.168.1.12(rw,nohide,insecure,no_subtree_check,sync)
From a client ...
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W2K3 DC: Samba file sharing access permission problem
I want to access SAMBA shares from a Windows Server 2003 domain controller without a password. But, I am receiving a permission error each time. I'm using RedHat 5.5.
# ls -l
total 96
-rw------- 1 ...
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SSH Copy Limit?
So I have a small little Ubuntu server set up, with some rather large files that I've allowed a few people to copy from their putty window.
Anyways 2 questions:
Lets say a person on windows wants to ...
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How can I share files between two Linux machines over LAN?
I am currently running Fedora 18 with Gnome on two computers which are connected to the same router. I have been using Samba to share files between the two, but I know there must be a better way.
On ...
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Samba 3.6 Configuration in Fedora 17
I need help configuring the Samba server so I can connect from a Windows (edit Windows 7) machine to my Fedora. I followed several tutorials because and non of them work for me. Here are two of them:
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Can not mount NFS from server on local network
I set up my NFS server without doing any bigger changes in configuration files. After that I added these entries to /etc/exports(both paths are valid) on server(192.168.1.11):
/export ...
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samba 4.03 question
I have trouble with samba, my old config from samba 3.6 don't work for 4.03 f18. The most clients windows and linux machines can r/w/c share files, but the androids users can browse the share and ...
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How to mount Windows shared folder on Redhat
Case::
I have to mount the windows shared folder on redhat directory /mnt or anywhere elese.
This is the Windows shared folder Path
D:\Analytics\Data\DownLoad This path will be mounted on Redhat so ...
