transfering files from PClinuxos to Kubuntu computer

[David McGlone]

On Sunday 06 January 2008 12:05:34 pm 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.
>
> 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.) --
> D. Michael McIntyre


Why not just use samba and file sharing.


-- 
David M.