Grabbing Files

Fashong · Apprentice Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 168

I want to grab music files from my labtop on the network. I am on a linux machine and my labtop is a windows machine, how would I do this?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:12 pm Post subject:

Fashong,

On the windows box, you need to share the drive/folder where the the files are and on linux you need to install samba, so you can connect to the shared folder. That makes Windows shares work with Linux.

If this is a one time only, or comparatively rare event, you can run sshd on linux and use PuTTY and friends on Windows to transfer the files. Look at Secure Copy on the PUTTY site http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Its a lot easier than setting up samba.
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dasRatsel · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 40

i have a similar question -- only i have samba -- how can i access windows shares? -- i got the whole graphical config thing in kde -- i'm just not sure how to actually browse the windows machine

note: my windows machine easily recognises my samba -- so going linux to windows works flawlessly

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