Easiest would be to install ssh on your linux box, and use a SFTP client (many freely available) to connect to your linux box, and well, copy the files as if you're using ftp!
Can you get online from your laptop? I mean, can you ping anything else on the internet from your laptop? If not, the network configuration might not be working too well. Naitik. On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 21:23:23 -0400 Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a work laptop running Win2000 that has a large number of files > I would like to transfer to my home Linux desktop. What would be the > easiest way to do this? I've considered my USB Zip drive (but it > would take quite a while) and also configuring SAMBA (haven't got it > working yet). The machines are connected by a linksys ethernet 4-port > router. I can ping the laptop from the desktop, but can't ping the > desktop from the laptop. > > Anyway, any ideas here are greatly appreciated. > > -- > Cheers, > Trey > --- > > At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. > And before that, during all eternity, what was there? > Nothing. > - Ugo Betti > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]