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On 17/09/12 12:33, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Kai Hendry wrote: > >> Hi guys, file sharing is an interesting topic. >> >> I really think using SAMBA or NFS is not the way forward. Avoid! > > Bolox. > > NFS is designed to serve files via the network and has been doing it > well before http came into existance. > >> Running a httpd on every device is. > > And that's different from running an NFS on every device because ... > >> When I get some time, I will update >> https://github.com/kaihendry/FTP2.0 to have drag and drop support like >> the Flickr uploader. That makes it a lot easier to share. Of course >> there are discovery issues next, and if one could formalise a simple >> directory listing format over httpd, I think you could go quite far, >> quite quickly. > > You don't need to do any of that - you just run the file browser of your > choice on your computer and access the remote files via NFS (or CIFS if > you must). It's all there, already been done and it works. You're just > re-inventing a wheel that already works. > > Gordon > I have been searching the web some more and it is obvious that Samba is not what I need. So I have been looking at NFS, but it all seems over complicated to me. Perhaps someone on the list could point to a simple set up or perhaps I am asking too much. I expected to find a simple way to set up a system whereby my daughter could link to my computer from her laptop via the router connection which we have already and then just look at the files in a particular folder on my hard drive. Well, what do I know? In my example I referred to some photos I had taken. They are on my desktop because I can prepare them for her using the Gimp. She is not interested in doing that for herself, so the images might as well be on my hard drive from the start. It is obviously going to be simpler for her to sit at the desktop and view the photos there. When we had the chat about Samba I did not realise what was involved. I should have known better. Sorry to have wasted people's time, Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq