connecting to a server

[Colin Law]

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