If anyone can help me out with this, I will be ever so greatful. I'd been planning to get a wireless access recently, but since I only have two computers here (my laptop with ArchLinux, and my girldriend's desktop with WinXP), I've decided to go for an ad-hoc network, letting the desktop computer be wired to the LAN and sharing the network over to my laptop. That all worked well; Windows is giving my laptop an ip through dhcp and finally we can both surf away on those cyberwaves. Now; what I would really need to be able to do, is to share files between the two computers. It doesn't really matter if this has to be done with SAMBA or with an ftp-client (perhaps the ftp-client variety would be of preference though).
Over the years, WiFi has grown tremendously and as long as your two systems are in the same local network, you can simply enable sharing on one PC and use the other PC to access those files. If need be, you can even create WiFi hotspots just to transfer files to and forth. How to quickly share files in Windows 10. From the Sharing menu, you can also zip, burn, print and fax files, as well as modify network sharing options. Step 3: Click the Share button.
I've been trying to get this working for the entire day, but I'm stuck. I've no clue as of what to do. Not only am I completely lost when using Windows, but I've no experience with networks whatsoever. Anything would be highly appreciated.
Well.you haven't given any details of what you've tried so far, so here's some general stuff, which you may already know. Taking your post in reverse order, the first thing you need to be able to do on any network is ping each other. Have you tried it, on both machines?
Assuming it works, the next step is to enable file sharing on the Windoze box. That makes it a samba server, as far as your laptop is concerned.
Install on your laptop, and you're ready to go (after reading the man pages, of course ). Sure, if you prefer. Put any of the packages on your laptop, and your gf can surf you with Explorer or IE - no additional apps required. My personal favourite, though is NFS.
Install on Windoze, and you can mount the drives on your laptop as nfs. Questions/comments/whatever - you know what to do. Well, you really need to be able to ping both ways, before we get on to specific apps. If you can ping from XP to Arch, but not Arch to XP, my guess is there's a routing error in XP, but like you, I don't know much about Windoze stuff. Post the output of route print on Windoze, and we'll have a look. Incidentally, you can take a screenshot of the focused window by doing Alt + Print Screen - save you all that retyping! I haven't been able to get things working yet, and I'm pretty sure it's Windows thing.
As a matter of fact, I've now been able to try the to connect to the desktop computer with a friend's windows' laptop, and it's still a no-go. However, I've managed to get the ftp-thing working, and I will probably stick with that until I have more time on my hands. I just have to make sure about one thing though, when it comes to that. While on the windows computer, I connect to the laptop using, i.e.
The local ip address given to it. Now, my ISP has put a limit on a maximum of 15 gig/day of transfers over the network. But since I'm connecting to a local ip-address, those bytes transfered aren't gonna be counted, right?
My question is; the data going back and forth here are just local, right? Tomk, you've been of so much help trough this whole thing. And I've been a fool.
Let me start by saying this: Right now I'm running samba on my laptop, mounting windows shares like normal drive. On the win-box I can browse my shared linux directories. How did at all work?
I was running in circles, going through my steps over and over again; and the third time I checked the firewall it turns out I hadn't explicitly enabled my laptop's ip-address.:oops: When I had tried this first, I'd turned off my firewall (which is a third-party program), but the inbuilt winxp-firewall was enabled. When I finally turned that off, I forgot about the third-party one. Aside from minor quirks (i.e.
Me not know samba perfectly well), everything is under control now. My apologies for overlooking something that obvious and dragging you through this whole mess. And, once again, many thanks!