Think fast: What’s the easiest way to send over 1GB of data to someone else via internet? While you think about how to answer that, yes there is a legitimate need these days for people to send large amounts of data to each other. Contrary to popular belief, large data sent and received is not just porn, hacked/cracked programs and Hollywood movies....

In 2007 I did a video on how to share files/folders to Windows with Ubuntu. But since version 8 of that OS the way in which this is done has changed a bit. It is simplified somewhat, but the drawback now is that in order to change the Workgroup name you must edit a configuration file manually instead of having the ability to do it in the GUI like before. In the...

I personally find it comical how many users of the YouTube site believe they have "rights" on a private system that doesn’t grant them any. I also find it comical many believe that they can simply dictate to Google what they should and shouldn’t do with their own video sharing web site that’s free. A classic example of this is in this...

Time and time again I run into people who think "torrent" translates to "illegal". Is it? Let’s find out what this all means by examining the definitions. A torrent is a small file usually ending with the file extension .torrent. You use the .torrent file with a BitTorrent client. BitTorrent itself is a peer-to-peer file sharing...

This article covers the following:Setting up a workgroup in Windows XP. Setting up a workgroup in Ubuntu 8.10. How to share out files from your Windows XP computer on your home network so you can access them with Ubuntu 8.10. How to access files shared by your Windows XP computer on your home network in Ubuntu 8.10. How to share files out from Ubuntu 8.10 to a...

Merging the computer with your home entertainment system on your home network is not only cool, it is one of the new things in the world of networking. Let’s look at how you can use some of those MP3 files and digital video and images that are sitting on your computer and stream them to your home entertainment system. [hidepost=1] Media Adapters A media...

Sharing a printer on your network is another very useful feature of a network. Allow all of your computers to use the same printer. There are three ways to accomplish this: [hidepost=1]Have the printer plugged directly into one of the computers on the network and simply use the operating system to share it. Plug the printer directly into the network using a...

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Sharing files and folders between computers is one of the most common applications for a network. You can share single files, folders, even whole drives (bad idea!) if you want to. Sharing a folder is convenient because you simply have to tell Windows to share the folder rather than tell it to specifically share every file in that folder. Windows will...

I have discussed previously in this book how IP addressing and DHCP servers operate. If you are interested in some of the technologies behind this, back up and have a read. For now, let’s just get down to business and get you sharing an internet connection. The first thing you might need to do is configure your router. The good thing here is that many routers...