How to share a drive?

[beun007]

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me how to share a drive? Thank you!

Peace!

[SteveRiley]

Take it out of the case and kindly offer it to a friendly stranger?

We'll need to know more before we can help you. What operating system does the sharee run? What kind of files? What applications (office type stuff, audio or video player, etc) will the sharee run?

[beun007]

Take it out of the case and kindly offer it to a friendly stranger?

We'll need to know more before we can help you. What operating system does the sharee run? What kind of files? What applications (office type stuff, audio or video player, etc) will the sharee run?

Well, all I'm asking is how to share a drive. So, I'm wondering what it has to do with the kind of files I wanna share. But, I'm running Kubuntu 14,04 Thar...

Peace!

[Feathers McGraw]

Well, all I'm asking is how to share a drive. So, I'm wondering what it has to do with the kind of files I wanna share. But, I'm running Kubuntu 14,04 Thar...

Peace!

Steve asked what kind of operating system the sharee (i.e. the person you're sharing the files with) runs because what's "best" to share with Windows may not necessarily be best to share with Linux. I've never used Samba myself, but it's supposed to be better for sharing with Windows.

Since my flat is Windows-free, I use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to share video files on my LAN (Local Area Network). This works really well for me because it makes it easy to access my videos on various devices in the flat, like the Raspberry Pi behind my TV, which runs Raspbmc (XBMC+Debian distribution for Raspberry Pi).

vsftpd ("Very Secure FTP Daemon") is the name of the FTP server built-in to raspbmc, which is also what I'm using on my home server. I like it a lot, it allows you to password protect access to the shared content, choose between read-only and read-write access, and is easy to configure.

But... it might not be what's best for you if you're planning on sharing MS Word documents with a Windows machine or something like that.

[oshunluvr]

You can share a drive with: FTP, NFS, SAMBA, SSH, Apache, etc. ad nausium.

Unless you're going to tell us what, where, when, how, we've got no answers.

[SteveRiley]

And the file type matters because if, for example, you want to stream an audio or video file from a share, you have to configure it a certain way. Otherwise, KDE will download the complete file and then play it locally.

We aren't asking these clarifying questions to be annoying -- real reasons exist. Help us help you.

[whatthefunk]

Of if you want to share a drive between different users on the same machine, you can simply change the permissions on the drive and add a link to it in the other users account.

[beun007]

Well, to answer all your questions and comments in one reply: I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 Thar on both system and yes I want to use Samba share because it's compatible with Windows. And yes, I wanna stream video from my external hd which is connected to the system, ment as server. I hope I answered all your questions and comments now...

PEACE!

[SteveRiley]

Well, to answer all your questions and comments in one reply: I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 Thar on both system and yes I want to use Samba share because it's compatible with Windows. And yes, I wanna stream video from my external hd which is connected to the system, ment as server. I hope I answered all your questions and comments now...

Unfortunately, you didn't. We're still left to guess some things. I'm pretty sure you're saying that you have two computers -- let's call them Alice and Bob. You have an external hard drive connected to one, say Alice. And you want to stream video files from there to Bob, the other computer. Since both computers are running Kubuntu, why do you want to use Samba for this purpose?

[beun007]

Unfortunately, you didn't. We're still left to guess some things. I'm pretty sure you're saying that you have two computers -- let's call them Alice and Bob. You have an external hard drive connected to one, say Alice. And you want to stream video files from there to Bob, the other computer. Since both computers are running Kubuntu, why do you want to use Samba for this purpose?

First of all: I like the way you describe this, coz it's exactly how it is. I like to use Samba because both Alice and Bob have also Windows on their HD. But, if you have a better suggestion for Linux, that also ok with me.

[GreyGeek]

Ah, another learning moment!
*grabbing my popcorn and Dr. Pepper and setting back ready to absorb it all in*

[SteveRiley]

Well, now we have enough information. Assuming that you boot Alice into Kubuntu when sharing its drive, I agree that Samba would work best. That way, you can access the drive from Bob no matter what operating system you've booted on Bob.

Fortunately, setting up Samba on Kubuntu has been documented.
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntu_...ng#Filesharing

[GreyGeek]

That's it? Wow. I didn't even get a chance to take a sip of my Dr. Pepper!

(It appears to me that the alternate method of installation would be the better one to choose

[Feathers McGraw]

Gerry, didn't Dr. Pepper mess you up? Or was that the diet version with all the aspartame?

[claydoh]

Gerry, didn't Dr. Pepper mess you up? Or was that the diet version with all the aspartame?

Oh no that's me. I can live off of Diet Black Cherry Dr Pepper:eek:

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