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Questions tagged [file-sharing]

For questions pertaining to file-sharing across a network

File sharing is a setup where 1 or more folders are made visible ("shared") in a network environment, and file permissions are set to grant access to other users.

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Portable system for syncing files (like DropBox)?

Currently, there in no version of Dropbox for ARM Linux variants, there is an article here https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/358/linux-arm-support I've use Cubby, Google Drive, DropBox, Wuala, SpiderOak and probably a few others, but haven't found…
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NFS vs Samba shares

So I'm setting up a NAS server with my Raspberry-Pi, and I'm trying to figure out what type of file sharing I want to implement. Between NFS and Samba shares, I've read that NFS is faster than Samba, however Samba is easier to set up on Windows. My…
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How can I connect to my RPi NFS server using version 4?

I've set my Raspberry Pi up as an NFS server, but I cannot connect to it with NFS version 4. However, version 3 works. From my Kubuntu 13.04 client: $ sudo mount -t nfs -o proto=tcp,port=2049,vers=4 192.168.1.91:/export /mnt/pi -v mount.nfs: timeout…
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Play music from laptop through XBMC on TV?

Is it possible to play music (or even video) stored on my laptop HDD, through XBMC which is running on my Pi attached to the TV?
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Mapping to Shared Drive on Linksys Router

I have a 2 TB Seagate drive on my Linksys WRT1900AC router USB. I can access it as a network drive on my Windows 10 PC and as an ftp site when I'm remote. I'm trying to access it on my RPi 3B+ but I keep having problems connecting. I created…
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How to access a Samba shared folder from a Pi

In my home network I have an Ubuntu machine that is running Samba server. My Windows machine is easily able to browse through the folders after providing a username and password. However when I try to run smb://server from my Raspberry Pi 2 it is…
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Video server for PS3

I am totally new to Raspberry Pi, and media servers - I do have experience with Debian command line though. Is it possible to make a Raspberry Pi have a local folder that can be shared as some sort of "media server" so my PS3 can access videos from…
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Raspberry Raid 0 gains

I'm currently using the Pi overclocked to 1GHz on Archlinux running deluge and samba which access a 3TB external USB drive. I plan on buying another identical drive and set it up as a raid 0 configuration (no, I don't care about the data being…
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Problem with Samba shared folder

I have a USB HDD formatted in NTFS connected to my router, all my PC(Windows,Os X,Linux) can use it, also Raspberry works on it using the file manager.This is the situation I try to mount the folder torrent by raspberry's terminal using sudo mount…
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MiniDLNA issue - not indexing files

I setup minidlna (apt-get install minidlna) but it does not index any file in my folder.´ [2013/11/04 02:25:09] minidlna.c:898: warn: Starting MiniDLNA version 1.0.24 [SQLite 3.7.13]. [2013/11/04 02:25:09] minidlna.c:926: warn: Creating new…
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Sharing exFAT drive via Netatalk, can't create directories

I set up my Pi 3 to serve an external drive with Netatalk to access it from my Macbook. Works well, but I can't create directories with Finder. Creating files, renaming, deleting files and directories work, but not creating them. Do you know whats…
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Securely sharing a Pi repository dir to other systems

This question may come off as ambiguous and/or repeatable, but I can't find the answer I'm looking for. I use intelliJ IDEA with the Camelcade Perl5 plugin to do development work for the RPi on my laptop. (I either wrap or write C code that contains…
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Create fileserver for windows computer

How can I create a file server (probably smb) so I can access a folder or drive from a windows computer on the same LAN?
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How to get remote controlled raspberry pi to play music/video out of its OWN speakers

In the past I have in the past created a NAS which I can use to play music through my PC or phone. I would, now like to make a media centre with a raspberry pi (B rev 2) which will be able to play video through my TV, and control this with my phone,…
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Programmatically transfer the file/data from Raspberry Pi to android phone

I have a Raspberry Pi unit connected to a sensor. Sensor is writing measurements to the sd card of the Raspberry Pi unit every 10 hrs. Now I want to copy this data to a android phone to plot the graphs every month. As of now I am able to pair the…
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