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Questions tagged [file-sharing]

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Use virt-manager to share files between Linux host and Windows guest?

Is it possible to use "Filesystem Passthrough" virtual hardware option inside virt-manager to share a folder on my Linux host with my Windows guest? I found some tutorials for how to do this with a Linux guest, but when I try this with my Windows…
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Shared folder between QEMU Windows guest and Linux host

In the past I have used Virtual Box which has very good support for sharing a folder on the host with a Windows guest. I am looking for similar functionality for QEMU. The documentation suggests to expose a Samba server running somewhere in the…
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rsync certain files, excluding the rest, ignoring .svn/ directory, recursively

I'm using rsync to copy some files from a share to another. Recursively, I need to: Delete files at destination that were removed from the origin Only sync .php and .js files Exclude every other file type Do not delete .svn/ directories at…
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How to remove mounted locations that have been added using the mount command?

I've mounted few shared locations using the below command. mount -t cifs /mnt/systemfolder -o username=name,password=password //10.10.1.1/My-Shared-Folder A few incorrect locations* have been erroneously mounted while running this command. Now when…
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Simple file transfer

Given two Linux boxes on a LAN, what's the simplest way to transfer files between them?
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Forcing Linux NFS client to reconnect to server after NFS is disconnected

Is there a way to force a Linux client to reconnect to a NFS server after it has lost its connection? The client eventually notices the server is back and resumes working just fine. I'm just wondering if there is a way to speed up this…
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Simplest way to send files over network

What is the simplest and most versatile way to send files over the network to other computers? By that I mean computers that other people are using at the moment. I don't think SSH works if the computer has an active session open. So far I am using…
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smbclient alternative for large files

I'm using smbclient to transfer a set of large files (80 GB) nightly from a Linux system to a Windows share. Lately, for whatever reason, I've been getting I/O timeouts: cli_push returned NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT which causes the active file transfer…
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Create Temporary Samba Share

Is there a possibility to temporarily share a directory per Samba? With Python 3 i can serve the current directory per HTTP using: python -m http.server. I'd like to do the same thing with Samba.
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How do I access my Windows administrative share from Linux?

I have a Windows computer on 192.168.0.103 and I want to access the c$ administrative share from a Linux computer which has 192.168.0.110 to exchange some files. From another Windows computer on the same network, I can simply open the Run prompt and…
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Permission denied for user accessing mount

Using root I can mount another Linux share no problem. root@crunchbang:/mnt# mkdir javalib root@crunchbang:/mnt# mount -t cifs //10.1.3.7/javalib ./javalib -o username=guest Root can read/write to the share dirs no problem. root@crunchbang:/mnt#…
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How to move completed torrent downloads to another folder without breaking the torrent link?

I'm using Transmission on EOs and I've downloaded a bunch of torrent files which ended up my Download folder in my /home. I'd like now to move the files to my external hard drive without breaking the link and contribute to further sharing upload of…
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How to share files between Linux and Windows?

I am wondering, is there any way to easily share a folder between Linux and Windows?
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socat reliable file transfer over TCP

I am aware of disadvantages of "wait->stop" design, that usually is proposed with netcat: server$ cat test.dat | nc -q 10 -l -p 7878 client$ nc -w 10 remotehost 7878 > out.dat (It's not reliable : no meter how long you wait it's always possible…
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Which filesystem to use for a partition shared with a parallel Windows installation?

On my new PC I want to install both Linux and Windows, each on their own rather small partition, and put the big rest of the 1 TB HDD in a further partition (plus swap). Which filesystem should I use? My thoughts: NTFS. Linux has write support, but…
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