<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/31 David Leeming <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leeming@pipolfastaem.gov.sb">leeming@pipolfastaem.gov.sb</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><br><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I want to do a new install but can you let me know if I can
install Samba and how to set up access to a shared folder on a Windows PC on
the LAN as I have a large content collection and it takes ages to copy it all
again by flash drive. Or maybe there is a better way to do it. </span></p></div></div></blockquote></div>I was curious about that, too, so I looked into other alternatives as Samba can sometimes be a pain to configure. It's also yet another service to run on the XS.<br>
<br>I found an sshfs utility for Windows called Dokan. And it's free for non-commercial purposes! This might make more sense than fooling with Samba, especially if you only have one Windows machine to deal with.<br>
<br>The Dokan library and Doken SSHFS packages are at <a href="http://dokan-dev.net/en/download/">http://dokan-dev.net/en/download/</a>. I also had to install the Microsoft Visual C++ package mentioned on that site, the .NET Framework (which was 55 MB), and Windows Installer 3.1.<br>
<br>There's a nice GUI to enter in your ssh login info and mount points. I connected and now /home/anna on the XS is mounted read/write on N: on an XP machine.<br><br>Anna Schoolfield<br>Birmingham<br>