[techtalk] file sharing?

Mark Foster blakjak at blakjak.net
Thu Jul 26 12:32:36 EST 2001


The way I do it; FTP :)
Havnt bothered with Samba.

For irregular transfers, FTP is plenty. Install the FTP daemon on your 
linux machine and use an ftp client on the windows one...


At 17:27 25/07/2001 -0700, markthegeek at canada.com wrote:
>I have a networking question.
>
>I am no networking guru, so please bear with me. I have two computers. One 
>running Linux, and the other computer running Windows 2000. I know that it 
>is possible to transfer between these two systems via some
>sort of peer-to-peer file share or maybee by Samba.
>
>Is there anybody with any practical advise in doing this?
>
>As a result of having only two network cards, I'm sure that I couldn't 
>connect these computers AND connect to my cable internet (without getting 
>some sort of hub or router, which I hope to do in the near future).
>
>Anyways.. for now I would just like a quick way to quickly transfer files 
>between the two computers, even if it does mean having to physically 
>unplug my cable connection.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>~Mark
>
>
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