[Techtalk] File Sharing in Linux

[Travis Casey]

Thursday, May 16, 2002, 12:10:48 PM, Dave North wrote:

>> Malke: how can I
>> share/transfer files from one SuSE box on the network to another one?

> FTP should do the trick. In particular, make sure you specify lukemftp for
> the client (originally from bsd, it's terrific. I think it's the SuSE
> default now). For the server, the standard version is probably best (there
> is also I think proftp and fooftp -- I forget the names).
>         This sounds hairy, but if you have YaST install both the client
> and server on both boxes (and it's best to stay away from annonymous ftp,
> as I think it will suggest) you'll be able to send or get from either box.
> I also think YaST handles inetd config automatically)
>         I do not yet have 8.0, though, so some of the specifics of the
> above may be out of date.

I don't have 8.0 yet either, but I noticed that 7.2 personal came with
OpenSSH installed by default, and I assume the later versions would as
well.  With that, you could either sftp or scp to do the transfer.

-- 
Travis Casey
efindel at earthlink.net