Comments on: Instant LAN File Sharing With Python

By: Web Developer

Web Developer — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:38:43 +0000

It just works fine on my ubuntu 9 linux based machine.

By: Cufflinks

Cufflinks — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:59:50 +0000

I’ve run it on my Linux machine as well as my OS X machine and it worked just fine with no other configuration

By: ngo

ngo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:48:14 +0000

They're hidden files (you can tell because the first character is a '.') so they probably won't show up in a file explorer by default.ngo

By: Pradeep Nayak

Pradeep Nayak — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:08:42 +0000

Hey it did not work in mine??

By: Gigasize

Gigasize — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:55:22 +0000

Phyton is a really good one.. It makes the land sharing so simple and fast.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:16:06 +0000

It’s even simpler, actually.

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

That’s it. I saw it on Command Line Fu a few months ago.

By: håkan

håkan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:34:45 +0000

Very sweet tip. (for us clueless l4m3rs…) Thanx a lot!
(thanx for the rest of the site as well by the way…)

Works like a charm on karmic as well, but you probably already knew that. Justa saying…

By: zelut

zelut — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:08:35 +0000

They are located in your home folder. You should be able to edit/find them at ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_aliases

By: drewbenn

drewbenn — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:37:58 +0000

In your home directory. They're hidden files (you can tell because the first character is a '.') so they probably won't show up in a file explorer by default.

By: jheino

jheino — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:22:42 +0000

This can also be done in a simpler way:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 …