On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, Got hold of a cheap laptop. I want to use it as my download rig. It will be on most of the time downloading torrents. The laptop actually came with Windows XP installed. I setup the laptop ip as 192.168.1.5 and my desktop (running Windows 7) ip as 192.168.1.4. After doing that I connected both of them using a lan wire. I then enable sharing on both of them and I could transfer files directly from one computer to the other at speeds of upto 75MBps. I want to know how to do the same with archlinux or Windows 7 running on my desktop and archlinux running on the desktop. Please tell me how to do that. I want to be able to tranfer downloaded content directly from the laptop to the desktop using a lan cable. Thanks.
For my two cents, if you're not running Gnome or KDE, and want an easy(ish) way to set up samba, check out the webmin package. I have installed webmin countless times for the express purpose of setting up samba shares, and it works great. Much quicker than editing smb.conf and tweaking smbusers and smbpasswd.