Crossover cable connection between 2 computers.

[Ignazio Palmisano]

Mike Shaw wrote:
> Your looking at this little backward.  Once you have the network setup
> between the machines any application you would normally use to
> transfer files between two machines will work, i.e. ftp, scp, rsync,
> nfs mount and copy, samba mount and copy, etc.  It sounds like you
> don't have the network setup.  In order to get a serial link network
> setup you might look at the Linux Documentation Project(www.tlp.org)
> for details, especially the Serial How-to and the Network
> Administrators' Guide.  You are going to setup either a SLIP or PPP
> connection to get this to work via serial cable.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Mike

I believe he refers to a ethernet crossover cable :) with serial cables, 
transferring the 250 gigs Steven mentioned in other threads would take 
quite a bit of time...
I.

> 
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Steven Vollom
> <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> I have a crossover cable.  I would like to transfer data from one
>> computer to another using the cable.  After the computers are connected,
>> what type of application will assist the transfer.  I have been unable
>> to get Samba or fish to work.  But I do have a crossover cable and would
>> like to try that.  TIA.
>>
>> Steven
>>
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