This may seem like a silly question, but...

I'm using Mandriva 10.1, and I would like to get some files from my friends computer who is hooked up to the same network as me. How do I go about this? Is there a visual way to browse through his files (that are available), or is it all command line? Any help here would be great, because I don't even know how to see his computer on the network.

vital_101

Hi

Is he on windows? if so samba is a good option


Slim Pikins

What's the other computer running, if it's Windows then use SAMBA (client will do) .

Check Mandriva's system/util's etc. there must be a section for network services to enable SAMBA.

If it's another Linux machine then you could use NFS.

Once SAMBA is running you can browse the network .. in unix world you want to mount the disks from a remote machine (the disk/directories should be exported from them first) .. but simple browsing of shares works also (with Konqueror)

Yes, the other computer is running windows xp with sp2

The approach all depends on the OS on your firends computer. If it is a windoze box, you probably are best off setting up his by having him/her share the directories you wish to share. Your side you would need to install Samba and configure it.

If both boxes are linux, NFS is easier to install and confirure.

A third option is to use FTP. It will work for almost any OS to any OS. You need to install a FTP client on the non linux boxes. There are share ware programs. WS_FTP is as good as it gets for windoze.

There are How_to's available for Samba and NFS. Never looked for one for FTP, it was simple enough to get wrorking.