connecting to a server

[Bill Stanley]

On 01/12/2011 11:56 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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
>
> There are a lot of issues with moving large (>4GB) files around. I
> ended up writing a custom utility to send a large file to a Windows
> computer, although that may have been more a Windows issue than
> otherwise, and if both ends of the connection are Linux then it may be
> easier.
>
> Are you able to do it with FTP? If not, I'll see if I can rewrite the
> recipient end of my file transfer utility for Linux, and see how it
> goes. It uses TCP/IP rather than SMB, as in my experience it's more
> reliable.

I would be willing to give FTP a try but I haven't had the need to use 
it.  What must I do?  Presumably I have to set up my server some way and 
then what must be done on the client side?


Bill Stanley