how to transfer files between 2 linux computers

[Mark Widdicombe]

On 8 December 2011 07:19, Abhishek Dixit <abhidixit87 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I Can easily access via nautilus gui the windows share
>
>
> It automatically gets mounted at /media
>
>
> deel at ubuntu:/media$ ls -l
> total 16
> drwx------ 1 deel deel 16384 2011-11-16 10:33 New Volume
> deel at ubuntu:/media$ sudo chmod 755 New\ Volume/
> deel at ubuntu:/media$ ls -l
> total 16
> drwx------ 1 deel deel 16384 2011-11-16 10:33 New Volume
>
>
> If you notice in above even after changing permissions the permissions
> have not changed.
> What could be the reason and how can I change the permissions?
>
> If the file system is formatted as NTFS or FAT (i.e. Windows filesystems)
you can't change the permissions because Windows file systems don't use
Linux/UNIX permissions.
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