On 7 March 2011 20:27, Karol Babioch wrote:

What kind of Desktop Environment are you using? As far as I know GNOME offers to ability to share folders, which can be configured through a GUI.

Otherwise you will have to setup Samba manually, which can be tricky sometimes and needs some read up.

With KDE, I just copy the default samba configuration file, edit the workgroup to match the windows systems, and start the samba daemon. Then I right-click on a folder, go to the sharing tab, and finally click away. If you don't want to share from Linux, just configure the sharing on Windows (go to advanced sharing settings in win7). Make sure to uncheck password-protected sharing. Then you can just access the machine from KDE/Dolphin->Network without samba (just smbclient needs to be present).

I used samba once, IIRC it was very simple. On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Karol Babioch wrote:

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What kind of Desktop Environment are you using? As far as I know GNOME offers to ability to share folders, which can be configured through a GUI.

Otherwise you will have to setup Samba manually, which can be tricky sometimes and needs some read up.

Best regards, Karol Babioch

I will be using awesomeWM

-- have a nice day -jck

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote:

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:

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I will be using awesomeWM

FWIW, that doesn't stop you from using the gnome or kde libs for ... well, whatever. You'll likely end up with one, the other, or both on your system at some point anyhow.

The laptop will be running for one single purpose- to download. I just want a minimalistic UI to run transmission and some terminals. Don't want any of the bloat of gnome or kde.