connecting to a server
Colin Law
clanlaw at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 12 17:05:08 UTC 2011
On 12 January 2011 16:50, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
> This is getting tedious...
>
> Is there any way to get a BIG (4.5 GB) file from my server to the laptop. I
> am having problems on the laptop with connecting to the server where the
> BIG file is located. I have other computers on the network that can access
> the file but not the lapto
>
> I have tried to connect to the server using places/connect. I choose
> Windows share and the servers name. I get back an error message stating
>
> Cannot display location "smb//???" (note: The servers name is not ???)
>
> The other computers on the network accessing this server so the problem is
> in the laptop. I ran apt-get install smbfs to try to connect the other was
> and use the laptop as a server and thus having the server SEND the file.
> Still no luck. The laptop has a new install of 10.10 and smbfs is the
> only change I have made from a fresh install.
>
>
> PS is there any other way to get the big file to the laptop. I tried a DVD
> but this file is to big for even a DVD. (The largest file you can put on a
> DVD is 2 GB. I tried and failed.) Is there any way to split up the file,
> write the pieces of the file to disk, read the disks on the laptop and then
> reconstruct the big file from its pieces. This would be very laborious and
> the network route is far better.
Is the file already compressed?
What OS is the server running? If linux then I don't know whether
rsync would cope with it.
Colin
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