I just never got around to setting up and using Samba on my home network. I had my files in SVN or would login to the box that had what I needed, or used some other mechanism. But a certain case kept popping up that forced me to get it in place.
I have one server that has all of my movies, music, etc on my home network. I wanted to be able to access all my music from other machines. Using gnump3d was, aside from annoying for long term listening, a waste of bandwidth. Instead, I created a share on my media server accessible without password only on my LAN, and mounted this as my music library on my other machines.
To set up the first part, I followed this handy tutorial. He has all the details, but basically you just installed samba on the machine you want to share from, edit the conf file to create a share with no password access locally, and restart samba.
Then, on the machine you want to access the files from, you install smbfs. After that, create a dir you want to mount the shared files from (in my case ~/Music), then run
1 | sudo smbmount //myserver/myshare ~/mnt. |
After that, you should be able to browse files you are sharing from the mountpoint you specified. Easy!
More details on setting up Samba, as well as having a shared directory mount on boot, may be found here. One last thing. smbclient allows you to find information on local shares from the machine you are sharing from. For example,
1 | smbclient -L SERVERNAME |
allows you to see all available shares on SERVERNAME.
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