[PLUG] Sharing on Ubuntu
Chris Roberts
linux at chrisroberts.org
Mon Jul 13 18:05:30 UTC 2009
On Monday 13 July 2009 07:50:09 Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> In the Gnome file browser one can right click on a folder and choose
> Sharing Options. Three options are presented in the Folder Sharing
> window: [] Share this folder, [] Allow other people to write in this
> folder, and [] Guest access (for people without a user account. If the
> folder is not already shared, the first option is the only one not
> grayed out. Once [] Share this folder is selected, the second option can
> be selected.
>
> Question: how do I make the last option available?
>
> I have a couple of folders on this machine that I'd like to have
> available, both for reading and writing, from any other machine in the
> house. So far, I've only been able to make them available for reading.
> If I want to move something there from another machine, I have to do it
> from this machine.
I'm using KDE, but I am going to assume this is the same kind of thing. KDE
has the option to turn on sharing, but it will be grayed out until the proper
packages are installed that allow the actual sharing to happen. So, for me on
Kubuntu, to get the ability to share folders, I need to first install the NFS
or SMB packages, and then I can share things over the network through the KDE
interface.
Hopefully that's what you need to get this going.
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