File Transfers

[SnoutUK]

Hiya guys, i have my desktop pc running FC6 Gnome, and my laptop (for my girlfriend) running Kubuntu KDE. Is it at all possible to transfer files from one to another via the network? I have played around but can find anything that seems to work.

TIA
SnoutUK

[ppesci]

you can do the transfers with ssh, samba or nfs in an easy way, there are many others.

using ssh is the most straigth way i think.

Using the command line, here is very simple example:

scp myFile machineName:/destinationDirectory

Of course you will need autentication for the destination machine.

For more information type:

man scp

HTH

[Brian1]

Any of the above will work fine. One thing to remember is if either you are running a firewall on the machine you need to open the port or ports for whatever protocol you go with on both machines.

Brian

[SnoutUK]

So i presume i have to make sure im running sshd on both machines to accept files back and fourth?
other than ssh is there anything else that needs to be installed?

[Brian1]

Not much else is needed for ssh. It is usually installed on most distros. Here is a tutorial on setting up and using ssh.
http://www.suso.org/docs/shell/ssh.sdf
This will provide you a command line type interface between the two. To transfer files use the command scp. No gui type interfaces for it other than things like midnight commander and Krusader.

Brian

[SnoutUK]

OK thanks very much!