Networking :: How to share files between two DSL boxes?



I'm trying to learn how to share a file or files between two linux computers on my LAN. I have samba up and running with LiNieghborhood and I have no trouble getting files off of my MS windows box, haven't yet tried the other way, hell i rarely use the winders box anymore (wife does but i'm hooked on linux now :) )

Anyway any help you guys can give would be much apreciated.

Thanks,
Rob
Maybe not exactly what you're asking, but I'd run an FTP server on the linux box and pull/push files from winblows box.

One other thing I'm playing with at the moment is the live GMAIL filesystem. Who needs a hardrive anymore?
DSL comes with both an FTP client and server.  I agree with pr0f3550r, the easiest way to share data on two DSL boxes would be FTP.  Start the BetaFTP server on one machine (menu...systems...daemons....betaftp...start I think).  Fire up the FTP client on the other and point to the ip of the server machine. BetaFTP doesn't have many bells and whistles but it works.

If you don't like that I'm sure you could set both of them up on Samba and do the shares.

I think NFS mounts are out. I don't know if DSL out of the box has the server side of NFS. I know it has the client side and you can do NFS mounts to other versions of linux that can serve.

Good luck
cool i'll use ftp until such time as a better alternative presents itself, thanks guys, one of those i couldn't see the forest for the trees deal, i had blockheadedly categorized ftp as something i only used for updating my website with lol this is a good solution to my problem, wondering if i can get it to work with emelfm that would be cool to have "drag-n-drop" but if not i'm fine with put and get.

Thanks Guys,
Rob
thanks for the thread :)
i too was looking for a simple way to share files between linux computers without mounting a network file (which for some reason seems to take a long time, about a minute, but that may have something to do with my computer being a really old laptop and the network file being large...), and the betaftp-daemon works great :)

sudo /usr/sbin/betaftpd :)

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