So, apparently things like Samba and NFS aren't trival to set up, even using the GUI interfaces available under Linux (e.g., right-clicking a file and selecting "Share" in Konqueror or on the K Destkop).
What I wanted was a simple way of sharing a single file on my apartment LAN without resorting to FTP, SFTP or munging around in NFS configuration files. Thankfully, someone named 'lauri' in the #kde channel gave me the answer: "kpf", part of the "kdenetwork" package. It's an applet for KDE's kicker task bar which you can access via right-click Add->Applet->Public File Server. Specify a folder (which you WANT to be accessible by anyone who can point a browser at your computer), and an unpriveleged port (e.g., the default it suggests: 8001), and then people can access files over HTTP by going to: http://yourcomputer:8001/ You can limit the network transfer speed (it defaulted to 4Kbps for me, which was ridiculously slow, so I cranked it up to the physical limit of my network: 100Mbps), and it shows you a little graph of any network activity right over the applet. There's also a separate "Monitor" window you can bring up that shows more specific details. You can run multiple servers, remove servers, and pause and unpause them. It seems strange running a server out of my taskbar applet, but it really is quite handy! Next on my list of things to play with: remote desktop viewing & sharing under KDE. -bill! _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
