File sharing setup

[Bill Stanley]

On 12/30/2010 12:25 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> On 30 December 2010 16:28, Bill Stanley<bstanle at wowway.com>  wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I am now ready to tackle the file sharing problem.  I was given links on
>>> Samba file sharing to examine and RTFM (nobody put it that way) does seem a
>>> good answer.  When I am done reading it I might have some informed
>>> questions.  So I am not done yet and fortunately I don't have any deadlines
>>> so I am taking my time.
>>
>> When I have used it there has been nothing much to setup as far as I
>> remember.  Install smbfs, share out the folder and off you go.
>>
>> Colin
>
> @ Bill:
>
> Although the default configuration should suffice, sometimes Samba is
> not friendly at all. On these occasions a little bit of knowledge will
> not hurt.
>
> You can always rely on:
>
> The incredibly long whole F manual:
>         http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
>
> If you ever decide to fiddle with the parameters - smb.conf details:
>         http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html
>
> Since, in a Linux environment, sshfs can mount a remote folder for you
> easy and quickly, take a couple of minutes to read its man page or
> google it. It is a simple and powerful resource. But as you are dual
> booting (dual boot is a bore, try VirtualBox or VMware if one of your
> PCs has a nice processor and more than, say, 2 GB.) Samba is the way
> to go. Remember that you do not have to install Samba a server in
> every workstation. Depending on where your files reside, "one way
> sharing" (client/server) could be enough.

WS=> I have used VirtualBox and I was very lucky in that I have a Win7 
OS install disk.  This aside from Linux is the only OS I have disks for. 
  My processor an i7 with hardware support for VM's and 8 Gb of RAM I 
did some experiments with Virtual Box and a Win7 VM.  I have problems 
with accessing the Internet with the VM and I have put that aside for 
the moment.  Later, when I am looking for something to do, I'll revisit 
that.  Right now, I have enough on my hands.

By the way, is there any advantage to installing the samba server on 
every machine or does this just complicate the setup?