how to transfer files between 2 linux computers

[Maxime Alarie]

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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Colin Law
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:01 AM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: how to transfer files between 2 linux computers

On 8 December 2011 13:49, Abhishek Dixit <abhidixit87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Widdicombe 
> <markwiddicombe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
> Yes this is formatted as Windows File Systems...so what can be a 
> solution for the above situation?

Have a look at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
it describes how to give multiple users access.

Colin

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