On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > Got hold of a cheap laptop. I want to use it as my download rig. It > will be on most of the time downloading torrents. > The laptop actually came with Windows XP installed. I setup the laptop > ip as 192.168.1.5 and my desktop (running Windows 7) ip as > 192.168.1.4. After doing that I connected both of them using a lan > wire. I then enable sharing on both of them and I could transfer files > directly from one computer to the other at speeds of upto 75MBps. I > want to know how to do the same with archlinux or Windows 7 running on > my desktop and archlinux running on the desktop. Please tell me how to > do that. I want to be able to tranfer downloaded content directly from > the laptop to the desktop using a lan cable. > Thanks. > For my two cents, if you're not running Gnome or KDE, and want an easy(ish) way to set up samba, check out the webmin package. I have installed webmin countless times for the express purpose of setting up samba shares, and it works great. Much quicker than editing smb.conf and tweaking smbusers and smbpasswd.
