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Showing posts with label File Sharing. Show all posts

Monday, March 9, 2009

Dropbox [Store, Sync, and Share your files online]

Source : https://www.getdropbox.com

Have you ever wished that you could access your files from anywhere? We made Dropbox because we were tired of emailing files to ourselves or carrying around a USB key.

Once installed, any file you drop into your Dropbox folder will synchronize and be available on any other computer you've installed Dropbox on, as well as from the web. Also, any changes you make to files in your Dropbox will sync to your other computers, instantly.

Let's say you accidentally delete that 8 page report that you were supposed to have for a meeting tomorrow. A handy Dropbox feature is the ability to undelete files or pull up any previous versions of it.

You can also share files and folders with whomever you choose, whether it be music with buddies, docs with colleagues or photos with grandma, even if they're not Dropbox users.

We obsess over speed, and it shows. Dropbox is very smart about the way it handles files. For example, if you make a change to a huge file, dropbox will only update the piece of the file that changed.

All files are transported over SSL and encrypted using AES-256 (banks use this too).

Saturday, January 31, 2009

SHARING FILE USING SAMBA

Samba is an application which is running on Linux operating system. This application commonly used for sharing file and printer. Samba develop SMB (Server Message Block) protocol which could used for communicated with Microsoft Windows family.

Samba is consisted with 2 important component, smbd and nmbd, which both is a service which needed by Samba to could work properly.

Smbd is functioned as daemon service which needed for communication beetween Linux and Windows in order to enable file sharing and printer sharing. Nmbd is functioned as a server which serving request by Netbios using IP address which is generated by SMB/CIFS on Windows operating system and nmbd could make protocol like "Network Neighborhood".

Samba Server Installation

Samba installation could be installed with Synaptic Package Manager or terminal.

Open terminal and type command like below:
$ sudo apt-get install samba

After finished installation, check file gdbcommands and samba.conf in /etc/samba. If both file is exist, our installation is succees.

Configure Samba Server

We have edited smb.conf file to make sharing security access

- Open smb.conf form terminal
$ sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
- Add folder which want to share
[Global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = Ubuntu
server string = UbuntuSambaServer
security = share
host allow = 192.168.1.1/24 127.0.01

[sharing data]
path = /home/bearisusanto/share
comment = ubuntu File SharingShow all
public = yes
read only = yes
browseable = yes
- Restart samba server
$ sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

To see our configuration is success, you could see from client by open Windows explorer or open from Nautilus File manager

Adopted from : Info Linux Magazines, January 2009 Edition