The Might of File Networking

For those who have a Windows box and a Linux box on the same network (especially if it’s a home network), it’s absolutely essential that you give yourself the convenience of mounting your Windows drive in Linux.

It’s possible to make a folder on your Linux machine (I use /mnt/[computername]/[sharename] but you can use whatever folder you want) work like a folder on your Windows machine. When you navigate to it you read your Windows files, and you can save files to your Windows machine by saving them to this folder.

For a complete instruction on how to do this, check out Mounting Samba Shares Permanently. All you need is to have file sharing enabled on your Windows computer and share the folder (it could be a whole drive) that you want to access.

note: to share a folder right-click on it and click “sharing”, then give it a name.