Mapping a directory to a Windows machine

[leeclarke]

I want to be able to map a directory to my Windows XP machine at home. I want to do this so that I can treat that directory as if it were an extension of my machine (and share with a colleague). I understand Samba makes this happen on a Linux machine, but I don't understand much more than that. If anyone knows how to make this work, I'd be in your debt if you told me how. LC

[Pawel Kowalski]

Im not really sure what you mean by that.

Do you mean you have a computer at lets say an office and you want to be able to connect to a directory on your home computer from that office computer?

Generally something like this is done using VPN. There are cheap VPN routers you can buy or you can do it software wise. If you have a windows 2003 server any where in your office you can use routing and remote access to configure a VPN connection. I also heard about hamachi which I never personally used:

https://secure.logmein.com/products/...pn.asp?lang=en

if you don't want to mess with VPN you can also install a FTP server on your home machine (look up Filezilla) then people at your office can ftp in to the machine. This is a lot less convenient than VPN but its much easier to set up.

[the_ancient]

www.teamviewer.com,

[leeclarke]

Sorry I wasn't clear. I want to map a directory from my website, which is hosted by JagPC to a drive letter on my local computer. I shouldn't have to buy anything extra, such as teamviewer (which is cool; thanks). Samba runs on Linux and allows this sort of thing. I just don't know how to make that happen. Thanks.

[Pawel Kowalski]

There is a small program called netdrive. I've used it and it works great:

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/qna/999.html

However, because of licensing issues you have to search google for the program. I found this one but I can't vouch for it and I'd be weary downloading it from there:

http://www.freewarereview.info/2007-...le_drives.html

If you'd like feel free free to pm me. I think I have a copy somewhere, I'll have to dig around for it.

[jason]

The samba protocol has to be enabled on the Linux server which I highly doubt it is on JPC servers and it has to not be blocked at the firewall. Because there are many, many attacks directed at samba, which in many implementations (Windows 9x) is not very secure, and because it is mainly designed for local workgroup sharing only, most border routers block samba requests from entering an organization.

If you really want to map a drive letter to your JPC server, check out NetDrive, a utility from Novel that lets you map drive letters to FTP accounts and other Internet resources. It works pretty well, but I'll warn you that it is very slow. Note: Novel discontinued support for NetDrive, so you have to hunt a bit for it (it is no longer available on Novel's site). This site has a working link (be wary of it, though..I haven't downloaded it from there so I don't know if it is a legit file).

Personally, I keep a local copy of my sites on my computer and make all of my changes there while using the "Keep remote directory up to date" feature of WinSCP to monitor my workspace for changes and move them to the server automatically. This makes developing while live testing incredibly easy.

--Jason

[the_ancient]

Personally, I keep a local copy of my sites on my computer and make all of my changes there while using the "Keep remote directory up to date" feature of WinSCP to monitor my workspace for changes and move them to the server automatically. This makes developing while live testing incredibly easy.

--Jason

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[the_ancient]

Sorry I wasn't clear. I want to map a directory from my website, which is hosted by JagPC to a drive letter on my local computer. I shouldn't have to buy anything extra, such as teamviewer (which is cool; thanks). Samba runs on Linux and allows this sort of thing. I just don't know how to make that happen. Thanks.

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