Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-11 Thread Keerthan jai.c
You can make it completely headless, setup transmission and samba and dont install X. then control transmission from your main PC, install autotrans(firefox addon) on your main to send torrents to the remote transmission On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 201

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-11 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: >> >> I will be using awesomeWM >> > > FWIW, that doesn't stop you from using the gnome or kde libs for ... well, > whatever. You'll likely end up with one, the other, or both on your sy

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-08 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > > I will be using awesomeWM > FWIW, that doesn't stop you from using the gnome or kde libs for ... well, whatever. You'll likely end up with one, the other, or both on your system at some point anyhow.

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-08 Thread Keerthan jai.c
I used samba once, IIRC it was very simple. On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > > What kind of Desktop Environment are you using? As far as I know GNOME > > offers to ability to share folders, which can be configured th

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > What kind of Desktop Environment are you using? As far as I know GNOME > offers to ability to share folders, which can be configured through a GUI. > > Otherwise you will have to setup Samba manually, which can be tricky > sometimes and needs

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Gary Wright
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Madhurya Kakati 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 (ru

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Baho Utot
On Monday, March 07, 2011 07:08:52 AM Madhurya Kakati 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 deskto

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Ray Rashif
On 7 March 2011 20:27, Karol Babioch wrote: > What kind of Desktop Environment are you using? As far as I know GNOME > offers to ability to share folders, which can be configured through a GUI. > > Otherwise you will have to setup Samba manually, which can be tricky > sometimes and needs some read

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Karol Babioch
What kind of Desktop Environment are you using? As far as I know GNOME offers to ability to share folders, which can be configured through a GUI. Otherwise you will have to setup Samba manually, which can be tricky sometimes and needs some read up. Best regards, Karol Babioch signature.asc Des

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Keerthan jai.c
Just share your downloads folder using samba. You can then access it directly from windows. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Madhurya Kakati 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 ti

[arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Madhurya Kakati
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 b