FYI, I have a removable hard drive that I use for back-up purposes, but don't want to be tethered to it when I'm accessing my password-protected wi-fi network from the coffee shop in the bottom of my building. Also, I'd like to be able to map a network drive that reconnects at login. Google has confused me in regards to all this. You should, just set up networking and share the files.
Definately put up a password to your printer and do not allow changing or renaming of any files. Install software antivirus programs on all machines and turn on the firewalls. If you are on WiFi you can turn on protection or be kind of a dumbass like me and share your half terabyte collection of movies and music.
If you are at all and I mean any little bit tech savvy, I would suggest you boot Knoppix off a livecd and use the old desktop as a file server that way. I just did this with an old Win98 machine that I need to have running Windows occasionally. Getting networking and file sharing up was all done in a couple of easy menus and the latest version off Knoppix autodetected just about everything. Might a good compression package bring that down to something you could fit on the laptop?
Response by poster: Thanks for your replies. From the Network sharing and security group, check the option Share this folder on network in order to enable the the Sharing feature. If you don't want others to change or modify you files, you should uncheck the option Allow network users to change my files We suggest use not more than 12 characters for the share name , if any Windows 9x user would access this share folder Press OK to confirm this operation. Now you can see an icon with a hand holding the folder.
Connecting from client: First of all, logon the client machine e. Then we need to locate the host machine e. There are couple of ways to do so. Insert your Ubuntu install CD into your system and boot from it. Select Install to the hard disk :. Choose a keyboard layout you will be asked to press a few keys, and the installer will try to detect your keyboard layout based on the keys you pressed :. This is fine if you already have a NTFS-formatted disk to use, but if you are going to go to the trouble of using GParted to format a disk, use the FAT32 format so that all your computers can easily read and write to it Windows, Linux, and Mac.
You only need one drive since the OS can be stored on CD or CF and run in memory without installing onto a hard drive so the entire hard drive can be used for user files. But you can't configure settings such as static ip's and have them be persistent in this case.
I would like to see a similar how-to but with a way to encrypt the samba traffic over somelike like ssh. I've been trying to set up my file server with varying degrees of success but this has been my most successful so far! I recently installed Ubuntu 8. Previously connections like this were sporatic like Windows could see it, then it can't, or it can see the folder but cannot get into it..
It's very good tutorial, though I don't see a topic about printer sharing covered in the tutorial. So my question is by following the tutorial, sharing a printer in the network will become possible?
Unless you are using
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