Network and Internet

A useful feature of Windows is being able to connect to your desktop from another location to remotely manage your computer. While this functionality is native in Windows 7 and previous versions, it is not supported by default in many Linux distributions. However, using a simple tool called Gnome-RDP, I will show you how to connect to a Windows 7 remote desktop from an Ubuntu Linux desktop.

Sharing OS X folders with Windows machines has never been easier. Thanks to OS X’s built-in support for the Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol, allowing read/write access to Windows 7 machines can be done with just a few tweaks in 'System Preferences'. After completing the steps in this tutorial, your Windows 7 machine should be able to see your Mac on a local network. You’ll be able to setup multiple shared folders, each with different read/write access. Let’s begin by setting up our OS X machine.

With Mac OS X Panther came a simplified networking experience, particularly when it comes to sharing folders and files with Windows machines. Enabling access to a computer running Windows 7 from a machine running OS X requires very little configuration. However, file and folder sharing between Windows 7 and OS X machines isn’t quite an 'out of the box' feature. Here’s what you need to do in order to make it work.

A common goal of setting up computers on a local network is being able to share files and folders. In order for file sharing to work, the computers must exist on the same network and workgroup, and the computer sharing files must have a folder configured with the proper permissions to allow other computers in the network to access it. In a previous tutorial I showed you how to set up Ubuntu on a workgroup using Samba so that they are in the same workgroup as your Windows computers. In this tutorial I will show you how you configure shared folders on your Windows 7 computer and access them from Ubuntu.