Wednesday, June 13, 2007

File Sharing

http://live.pirillo.com/ - A user in the chat room wants to know how they can share files between their computers without using FTP or IM applications.

In Windows Vista you can open the network and sharing center, or right click a folder and choose the sharing option. Both will let you set various level of sharing permissions. If you're not on the same network then you'll need to set up some kind of intermediary server, like FTP.

Sharing between different operating systems can be done. Chris already has a little tutorial on how you can share files between Windows Vista and OS X:

The bottom line is that it generally isn't difficult to share files between computers on the same network, and it setting it up on Windows and OS X isn't too difficult.

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