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Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

Posts: 192

Setting up a server to share my external hard drive ?

Hello,

I recently bought a Seagate Dockstar (a kind or ARM computer) in order to share my documents located on my external hard drive with my Arch laptop, and my iMac.
I would like to have read & write access to my external hdd from both my laptop and my Mac, and to be able to mount it as a network volume under my laptop and my Mac.

I heard that it may be possible, but apparently there are a lot of ways to do it. Samba, NFS, FTP, SSH, SSHFS, Sparkleshare, Syncany...

For the purpose I described above, could someone recommend me a solution which would be more convenient than the others ? What about simplicity ?

Thank you all !

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Setting up a server to share my external hard drive ?

Specs for that device say it does Samba, so I don't think you have a choice.

hcjl

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From: berlin

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 330

Re: Setting up a server to share my external hard drive ?

http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/

http://archlinuxarm.org/

i am running debian on it. works like a charm.

Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

Posts: 192

Re: Setting up a server to share my external hard drive ?

Yep I am planning to install Arch Linux ARM, or Debian.

@hcjl: Do you use an external hard drive with your Dockstar, like I am planning to do ?

hcjl

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From: berlin

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 330

Re: Setting up a server to share my external hard drive ?

yes, i am sharing a usb harddrive via samba in my local network.