connecting to a server

[A. Jorge Garcia]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:50 AM, 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

Have you tried sftp? I set up openssh from the Ubuntu repositories just 
for this purpose.  Works fine.

You may want to set up an ftp server using vsftp, but openssh required 
less setup.

HTH,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math and CompSci
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