Because this article going to cover file sharing on all Linux distro and Windows clients. These two articles will help to solve most of your network and files sharing problems between Linux and Windows. So if specifically, you want to know sharing files via Linux Mint to Windows 10, follow this step by step article to share files between Linux and Windows.
No matter what Linux distro you are using, the Samba file server works perfectly for all Linux operating systems. Just try to learn how to use this simple files server on your favourite Linux distribution. By default, the Samba files server is installed on Linux Mint. So just try to share files. I have connected my computer through a Wireless Router, so all machines get their IP address automatically.
If the Samba is not installed, try to install it from the software manager or Terminal command line with the below command. Create and share a folder on Linux Mint.
This shared folder will be reachable from Windows 10 machine. To share a folder, right-click the folder and select Properties. On the Properties window select the Share tab and tick the check box of Share this folder. Change the permission to allow others to create and delete files in this folder also.
Or the guest user has access to this Linux Mint shared folder. Finally, click Close to close all opened windows and go to Windows On Windows 10 make sure the IP address is configured correctly.
Then try to enable network discovery from Network Settings. Finally, expand the Guest or Public profile and select Turn on network discovery. Now open the Network place from Windows 10 desktop or Windows File explorer and all machines must be listed like the below screenshot.
The LM is the Linux Mint machine. Open your Linux machine and see the shared folder. Yes, the file or folder has been shared successfully from Linux Mint to Windows. Let do sharing files via Windows to Linux. Sharing files are the same but the interfaces are different.
Make sure your Windows is ready for sharing files. The network discovery and Public File Sharing must be enabled on Windows These are works the same on others Windows like Windows 8 and 7. This folder must be reachable from the Linux Mint network section. To share a folder in Windows, right-click the folder and select Properties. On the Properties windows select Sharing tab.
Then select Advanced Sharing to open the Advanced Sharing window. Now tick the check box of Share this folder. Linux users have the freedom to customize their system to fit their preferences, including the desktop theme and icons.
There are many simple ways to create custom icons in Linux to change the look and feel of your system. We will discuss the following methods to use custom icons:. There are many places online for users to download custom icon themes. Below are websites that are trusted by the Linux community. Look through one of the websites listed above, find an icon theme you like, and download it.
Right-click on an archive to extract its contents and click extract here. Locate the downloaded icon theme, usually found in your download folder.
Use the CD command below to get there. Search for an icon theme from one of the trusted websites listed above. Below is a screenshot of a set of icons from openDesktop.
Next, move your extracted icon folder into place. If you are installing it for just one user, move it to:. However, it looks and feels old. Curl is another command line tool that can be used to download files from the internet. Unlike Wget, which is command line only, features of Curl are powered by libcurl which is a cross-platform URL transfer library. Curl not only allows downloading of files but can also be used for uploading and exchanging of requests with servers.
However, Curl does not support recursive downloads which Wget offers. Similarly, like Wget, Curl comes pre-installed with most of the Linux Distributions.
This can simply be checked by running the following command:. Just like Wget, Curl has multiple features incorporated inside of it. The most basic is its ability to allow users to download files from a single URL from the internet. For better understanding, we will be downloading a simple image in the png format from the internet just like in the case of Wget. Curl also allows users to change the filename and the type of the file. This can be done by the following command:. In the image above, we took a png file originally named pancake1.
Just like in the case of Wget, Curl allows users to download multiple files using a number of URLs from the internet. For our example, we will use curl to download a jpg file and a png file from the internet. Results are shown in the image below:. A pretty amazing feature that Curl provides to its users is its ability to monitor the progress of the download of the file. For more information regarding Curl, users can input the following command into the terminal to get access to all the Curl commands that appear to be available:.
Wget and Curl are among the wide range of command line tools that Linux offers for the downloading of files.
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