How to share files between two DSL boxes?

Forum: Networking
Topic: How to share files between two DSL boxes?
started by: starcannon

Posted by starcannon on Jan. 11 2006,06:44

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

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

Thanks,
Rob

Posted by pr0f3550r on Jan. 11 2006,10:37

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?

Posted by newOldUser on Jan. 11 2006,12:07

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

Posted by starcannon on Jan. 15 2006,21:08

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

Posted by howlingmadhowie on Jan. 29 2006,17:58

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

howie

Posted by Vince on Feb. 15 2006,08:59

Ok...how about having a DSL laptop sitting in my house(wireless connection to signal in this neighborhood somewhere) talking to the desktop next to it (in my house) that is in the starting stages of having Debian being loaded onto it?

A friend of mine loaded the fast multimedia/audio focussed Demudi/Agnula kernel on this desktop for me; he has only added a few apps to keep it from 'bloating' up. We had to stop, so it is only half way there. I want to get it up and running further and was wondering if there was simple way to
open a connection to my laptop's wireless signal to the net so I could use Apt on the desktop. Is this kind of internet 'train' or 'tunnel' possible?

Other nitty gritty questions: would I want to transfer via a crossover cable (gotta make one also)?
If this is possible, what basics things(applets) would I need on both boxes to accomplish this? And, of course, I have the DSL live cd to help.

If this were pretty easy (or even difficult, but with written instructions

..., I would be quite happy.

Any help appreciated. Thank you ahead of time.

Vince