transfering files from PClinuxos to Kubuntu computer

[Eric]

D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Sunday 06 January 2008, Eric wrote:
>> ssh. Anybody got links to good easy to follow tutorials on any of these?
> 
> I don't see anything that isn't way more involved than you need to get the 
> most basic kind of setup going.
> 
> Both machines should have the ssh client applications available, but you won't 
> have a server running unless you start it yourself.  You need to install 
> the "openssh-server" package on the destination computer.


Wow, that was very easy to set up on both machines. It couldn't have 
been much easier! Thank you very much.

There is an option to have the server start when the computer is booting 
up. Is that good to do? Do you think it would be better to just start 
the server when I need to transfer files?


Eric Jackson


> 
> So let me run through it here at home.
> 
> Step 1:  I turn on my wife's Dapper box and see if she is running sshd
> 
>   $ pgrep sshd
> 
> She is, but if she weren't, I'd just run
> 
>   $ sudo apt-get install openssh-server
> 
> and leave all of its defaults in place.
> 
> Step 2:  Now that she's running a server, I need her IP address, or an entry 
> for her computer in my /etc/hosts
> 
>   $ cat /etc/hosts
> 
>   # blah blah blah (privacy stuff deleted)
> 
>   # Wife's computer
>   192.168.0.101           swmbo
> 
> So now let's try Derek's trick and see what happens.  I have a picture from my 
> camera in ~/Pictures that I want to copy to her desktop.
> 
> Step 3:  So I open ~/Pictures in Konqueror and find the file IMG_1234.JPG
> 
>   [imagine picture]
> 
> Step 4:  Open a new window, and type fish://wife@swmbo
> 
> Lo, I get a password box thingie, enter her top secret magic password 
> ("myHusbandIsAMegaAwesomeLinuxH4x0r" but don't tell anybody her secret!!) and 
> now I'm in.
> 
>   [imagine picture]
> 
> So now I can just drag IMG_1234.JPG from me to her, et voilà, it shows up on 
> her box as /home/wife/where/I/put/the/file/IMG_1234.JPG.
> 
> It's pretty much that simple if you don't want to set up ssh keys for 
> passwordless copying, and with this fish:// protocol thing, it might not be 
> worth the bother.  Especially with the [x] Remember password box.  (Or you 
> could use scp from the command line like a real man, but I assume most people 
> in the world today aren't raging dweebs like me, so I won't get into that.)