[gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-04-25, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 4/25/21 12:14 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Nope. Many years ago I used UUCP a number of times for "production" >> projects involving data gathering from remote systems via dial-up. > >:-) > >> 25+ years ago, I wrote an article about one of those projects

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-25 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/25/21 4:08 PM, David M. Fellows wrote: A quick Duckduckgo search for "linux journal" grant edwards yields https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2880 Thank you for the link Dave. I'll read that later tonight. Still available. Reading it takes me back... :-) -- Grant. . . . unix ||

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-25 Thread David M. Fellows
>On 4/25/21 12:14 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Nope. Many years ago I used UUCP a number of times for "production" >> projects involving data gathering from remote systems via dial-up. > >:-) > >> 25+ years ago, I wrote an article about one of those projects for >> Linux Journal. > >Can you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-25 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/25/21 12:14 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: Nope. Many years ago I used UUCP a number of times for "production" projects involving data gathering from remote systems via dial-up. :-) 25+ years ago, I wrote an article about one of those projects for Linux Journal. Can you narrow that down any

[gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-04-25, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Grant: >> On 4/23/21 7:45 PM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: >> > Grant: >> >> I think you are conflating me for the OP. Easy to do with the same >> first name. ;-) > > Well, your sig is at a cursory look wery alike, but now I see you > have some extra dots

[gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-04-25, Grant Taylor wrote: >> It is usually simple to setup and use a serial null-modem cable and >> run kermit or somthing on the MS-Win side and add a getty (I've used >> mgetty) handling the serial port on the linux side. > > Is it wrong that the first thing that came to mind when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-22 Thread William Kenworthy
Security? Are serial ports available? - Before Ethernet became affordable for the home user we use to use some variety of Laplink and its was fast enough in its day- a quick search shows its still available. If MTP is ok, use a phone as the middleman - though that basically the same process as a

[gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-04-22, Kusoneko wrote: >>That won't use IP? > > Honestly, I don't get the problem you're stating with using IP. There's no problem. It's just not allowed. > If you connect 2 machines with Ethernet, assign them both a static > IP address on the same subnet, with no gateway or anything,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-22 Thread Kusoneko
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 04:29:26PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2021-04-22, tastytea wrote: On 2021-04-22 14:27- Grant Edwards wrote: I'm trying to figure out a convenient way to transfer files between a Linux machine (running Gentoo) and a Windows 10 machine (which has no internet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-22 Thread antlists
On 22/04/2021 17:29, Grant Edwards wrote: The easiest solution would be to connect both machines with an ethernet cable and run samba on Linux. The interfaces will be configured with a link-local address¹ automatically. That won't use IP? Doesn't have to. In the past it would have used

[gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-04-22, tastytea wrote: > On 2021-04-22 14:27- Grant Edwards > wrote: > >> I'm trying to figure out a convenient way to transfer files between a >> Linux machine (running Gentoo) and a Windows 10 machine (which has no >> internet access). IP connection between the machines is not