Original Article: “Quick� and “Dirty� Network File Sharing

Ever find yourself in need to share file over the network quickly, but find yourself lacking time to setup a proper NFS or samba share? Here’s a way to do this with the good old Python CLI.

First, go to the directory that you want to share, for example ~/Documents



Then run this command “python -m SimpleHTTPServer�



You may access the folder from a remote computer using any webrowser using the url – http://60.53.190.30:8000/ (change the ip address or domain name accordingly)


You may find this technique offers limited options to share files, but its a real time saver!

Original Article: “Quick� and “Dirty� Network File Sharing

This post has been edited by jk.cheng: Jul 1 2009, 02:17 PM