how to transfer file from Linux to Xp??

[meganwhite]

I have a pc with red hat linux installed and I need to transfer some files from it to another pc which has windows XP os. I do not have internet but all I have is a patch cable. How can I ftp the files ?
Any sujjestions??
Megan

 

[sleipnir214]

By "patch cable", do you mean a crossover ethernet cable?


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[stefanwagner]

Start the ftp-server on linux. (ftpd or in.ftpd)
Start ftp client on win

#> ftp LINUX_IP
#> username: LINUX_USER_NAME
#> password: s*cr*t
#>

you should now be in the LINUX_USER home dir.

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I don't know whether xp has a ftp-server.
Then you could do it the other way round.

Using windows-folders-access would be more complicated, you needed to setup samba.

Netcat could be used for the task too, which is beyond my scope.

tftp (tiny - ftp?) could help too

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[meganwhite]

yes i have the crossover cable. I tried to use a hub and the linux os connects to another linux pc when I mount the ip of that pc, but does not recognize the ip of my pc running on xp. If I try to ftp from the pc with XP I get the message connection refused by host. Is there any possibility I can install samba on the linux pc?

 

[RhythmAce]

Don't blow off sleipnir's question about the patch cable. You can't use a patch cable to connect to PCs directly. You need a crossover cable. If you're not sure which you have, hold both ends together. If they are identical, then it's a patch cable. If the color pairs are not in the same order, it's a cross-over cable and you are good to go. Since both use the same type of cable (usually cat5) you can't always tell by what's written on the sheathing. Sometimes you get lucky and they put Cross-over Cable on one or both ends. Once you get connected, you may want to consider running Samba which lets linux and windows "share" files and directories. It comes with Red Hat so if it's not installed, it will be on one of the CDs.

 

[RhythmAce]

Sorry meganwhite, we must have been typing at the same time. I'm just a little slow these days.

 

[sleipnir214]

meganwhite:

It sounds like you have the right cable to plug from the network adapter of one machine to the network adapter of another. Just plug it in and make sure you have connect lights on both cards.

After that, you need to get the IP addresses of the two network cards right. They will have to be in the same network subnet, but not on the same IP address.

Once you have that right, you can do one of:[ul][li]run an FTP daemon on the Linux machine and pull the files to the Win32 machine via FTP download[/li][li]run Samba on the Linux machine and pull the files to the Win32 machine via Microsoft Networking[/li][li]run smbclient on the Linux machine and push the files to the Win32 machine[/li][/ul]

There are probably other solutions, too.


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[stefanwagner]

yes - install a mailserver and send the file as attachment.

but honestly: the most easy way should be to use ftp.

After connecting the cables and watching the lights, you first test the connection with ping:

('connection refused' sounds good - sound, as if connection itself is possible; just to be sure
win#> ping LINUX_IP
linux#> ping XP_IP

(on error
win#> ping XP_IP
linux#> ping LINUX_IP


man hosts
man hosts.allow
man hosts.deny

man ifconfig
ls -la /etc/ftp*

Is one of both running a firewall (this will make trouble - independent from whether you use ftp, samba, mail or whatever).


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[manarth]

or you could copy the files to:
- a floppy disk
- a CD
- a USB memory drive

these should all be readable by an XP machine.

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[sedj]

I find the best way to copy files from WIn32 to Linux and back again is WinSCP - its easy to use and is secure.

http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/download.php

If you want a terminal from WIn32 to your linux box, use PuTTY :

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

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[hisham]

Install Apache webserver, it provides simple access to all types of content, and copy the files to the main directory, connect to apache from the XP machine and download the files.

 

[hisham]

Install Apache webserver, it provides simple access to all types of content, and copy the files to the maindirectory, connect to apache from the XP machine and download the files.

 

[lgarner]

I agree with sedj, except that I use putty's scp client (

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html).

You almost certainly have sshd running on the Linux computer already, so you're good to go.

 

[meganwhite]

Thanks for all the help guys I got the files transferred