Kubuntu-to-Kubuntu file-sharing migraine - anyone willing to hand-hold?

[rfakhrai]

Re: Kubuntu-to-Kubuntu file-sharing migraine - anyone willing to hand-hold?

oshunluvr, no offense taken; however, please acknowledge that this thread has pretty much gone dormant until the OP can figure out the issue with his router that won't allow his machines to talk.

Until that pathway is established, we can talk all we want about how cool NFS is.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Kubuntu-to-Kubuntu file-sharing migraine - anyone willing to hand-hold?

Good point...

[I_can_see_the_light]

Re: Kubuntu-to-Kubuntu file-sharing migraine - anyone willing to hand-hold?

Another easy way would be to use FTP.
This would of course also require your computers to be able to talk to each other.

post at crunchbanglinux.org

Quick how to:
Install vsftpd package on the machine to be sharing files
Do

kdesudo kate /etc/vsftpd.conf

and uncomment local_enable line (I also stop anonymous connections and allow write_enable for uploads)
Restart with

sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

Now you can use filezilla or gftp to browse the files from any other machine on the network, just put in the IP address + username + password of the server

More detail here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/server...tp-server.html

[rfakhrai]

Re: Kubuntu-to-Kubuntu file-sharing migraine - anyone willing to hand-hold?

FTP is great but it's useless for streaming and all of the other objectives the OP would like to accomplish, if I'm not mistaken.

[I_can_see_the_light]

Re: Kubuntu-to-Kubuntu file-sharing migraine - anyone willing to hand-hold?

FTP is great but it's useless for streaming and all of the other objectives the OP would like to accomplish, if I'm not mistaken.

The streaming part I thought was a different matter, I was trying to help with the file sharing issue. I'm not at my KDE box right now but if I'm not mistaken you should be able to use Dolphin or Konqueror instead of a dedicated FTP program.

I'm not knowledgeable enough about encryption but in this case the OP would connect to the computer with his own username/psswd, could perhaps help getting around the encryption problem?

[oshunluvr]

Re: Kubuntu-to-Kubuntu file-sharing migraine - anyone willing to hand-hold?

Personally, I find FTP too cumbersome.

I have a media server. I use NFS to stream the media and move files about and ssh when I need to access the filesystem directly. You can even connect via ssh using dolphin.

[rfakhrai]

Re: Kubuntu-to-Kubuntu file-sharing migraine - anyone willing to hand-hold?

Personally, I find FTP too cumbersome.

I have a media server. I use NFS to stream the media and move files about and ssh when I need to access the filesystem directly. You can even connect via ssh using dolphin.

Agreed. I use the same setup. FTP is simply too slow and cumbersome. It's good that we're bumping this thread consistently. Hopefully the OP can come back and we can move forward with his setup

[I_can_see_the_light]

Re: Kubuntu-to-Kubuntu file-sharing migraine - anyone willing to hand-hold?

Personally, I find FTP too cumbersome.

I have a media server. I use NFS to stream the media and move files about and ssh when I need to access the filesystem directly. You can even connect via ssh using dolphin.

Your way may be better suited since the OP wanted to stream media as well, however you should be able to use Dolphin or Konqueror to connect to a FTP share as well.