Best way to share a folder over LAN?

[Darth-Veger]

So i recently got this Windows XP machine installed and hooked up to my LAN. Now i want to host a server on it but i need to frequently change files and i wish to do that on my own computer.
Is there a way i can share the folder in which the server files are located and open them on my regular PC so i can easily edit it and that the changes directly appear on the server?

I looked into the build-in folder sharing thingy but i just can't get it to work.
Its a connection from Windows XP to Windows 8.1

[naelstrof]

Samba/Windows Sharing is your best bet. If you can't get the XP -> 8.1 windows sharing to work you can install Linux on the XP machine and use Samba instead.
Its working great for me and I get the added benefit of the server being headless with an SSH interface.

The only other choices are Linux based filesystems like NFS or SSHFS.
Here's an article about using NFS on windows: [url]http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sfu/archive/2008/04/14/all-well-almost-about-client-for-nfs-configuration-and-performance.aspx[/url]
And here's an application for SSHFS: [url]https://code.google.com/p/win-sshfs/[/url]
(They both assume you have a Linux server running with NFS or SSH capabilities)

If it doesn't have to be quite as integrated, you can use something like FTP instead.

[tankton]

[QUOTE=darth-veger;44126428]So i recently got this Windows XP machine installed and hooked up to my LAN. Now i want to host a server on it but i need to frequently change files and i wish to do that on my own computer.
Is there a way i can share the folder in which the server files are located and open them on my regular PC so i can easily edit it and that the changes directly appear on the server?

I looked into the build-in folder sharing thingy but i just can't get it to work.
Its a connection from Windows XP to Windows 8.1[/QUOTE]
Remember that windows uses sharing rights and file rights!
So you might have everything on full access for everyone at sharing level, but dont forget to add "Everyone" to full access at your folder permissions.