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May. 12th, 2013 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariWhy I like the command prompt:
One of the biggest functions of any computer I have is file sharing. Mainly, I like to have a central PC, with lots of files, shared to access from any laptop. Right now, Star Trek 4 is playing on the laptop, streaming from this machine. For Windows, file sharing is pretty easy. On XP, just rung through the "Set Up a Local Network" wizard once, and from there, right click on a file, and click "Share." Boom, done.
For such a powerful networking system, the filesharing of XFCE4 is kind of a jerk. You need to make sure yuo have Samba installed, have it configured, then install a plugin for the Thunar File Manager, and hope it all works. Thing is, I've never gotten it to work. I spent most of the evening trying differnet config files, different installations sequences, all sorts of poking and prodding. So much I broke it.
After finally thinkgin I'd just have to manually share files I want as I wanted via configuration files and stopping and restarting modules, just to move one file to another...I thought: "Hey, what's a command prompt solution for this?"
Apparently, it's "net usershare add ::name:: ::path:: "" Everyone:R guest_ok=y" . And it sticks! :)
One of the biggest functions of any computer I have is file sharing. Mainly, I like to have a central PC, with lots of files, shared to access from any laptop. Right now, Star Trek 4 is playing on the laptop, streaming from this machine. For Windows, file sharing is pretty easy. On XP, just rung through the "Set Up a Local Network" wizard once, and from there, right click on a file, and click "Share." Boom, done.
For such a powerful networking system, the filesharing of XFCE4 is kind of a jerk. You need to make sure yuo have Samba installed, have it configured, then install a plugin for the Thunar File Manager, and hope it all works. Thing is, I've never gotten it to work. I spent most of the evening trying differnet config files, different installations sequences, all sorts of poking and prodding. So much I broke it.
After finally thinkgin I'd just have to manually share files I want as I wanted via configuration files and stopping and restarting modules, just to move one file to another...I thought: "Hey, what's a command prompt solution for this?"
Apparently, it's "net usershare add ::name:: ::path:: "" Everyone:R guest_ok=y" . And it sticks! :)
