On 2003.07.23 01:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Putty might work for my needs, but I am still confused on how I will connect > to the actual machine. I will setup a linux file server on my network at > home > on a router (forgot to mention that I am using a router) with Cox internet. > > It would be easier if I am shown an example. If I want to transfer the file > Things.txt from my computer at college in the folder C:\Important\Filestosend > to the directory /User/Filesrecieved to the user Share (Is it a good idea to > set up a shared user on the server?) in my file server (lets call it Server1 > for now) on my network, how could I point it to Server1 since Cox can change > the > IP addresses? > > Also, on sourceforge, I saw a program called <A > HREF="http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/";>Filezilla</A> for Windows. The page > said that it can make ssh connections. I think that is what I am looking for > since it is a GUI sftp program. And on Server1 could I have the free <A > HREF="http://www.dynu.com/products.asp";>Dynu</A> > service running, then use the port forwarding on my router to connect to the > server? > > Thanks for any help, > > Steven P. >
Ahhh, the pain of Windoze and Cox. Here is the quick answer to most of your questions: http://www.no.embnet.org/UserSupp/Access/pscp.php3 You are not going to be able to get around Cox changing your IP address. Find out what it is before you go. If it's changed, you are out of luck and have to do some more work. You can have a script email you, or write the new address to some kind of public site, or have dyndns do it for you. (http://www.dyndns.org/). Yes, you will also have to forward your port or run ssh on your gateway. It's easiest to make things work at home between two boxes with known IPs first. There, where you are safe and warm, you can decide if you need a special user called Share and how you would put files into Share's home directory if you created it. Then worry about Cox and doing these things from a distance. To make Windoze work, without just booting over to free software, you can get some win32 free software. How much trouble you go through to make it happen, is up to you. John pointed out pscp, from the good people who make putty. Putty is a terminal emulator that uses ssh to talk to your other computers. Pscp probably does the same thing, but gives you scp that ray described. The prevalence of key loggers on Windoze platforms reduces the utility of things like putty, but there it is. Putty has a little settings interface where you put the IP address and password and other details you want it to remember about your logins. It would be useful to have to untar things if John's piping tricks and shell magic don't work with pscp. Other people have pointed out that ssh is part of cygwin: Here are some examples of cygwin running all sorts of stuff under Windoze: http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/reports/apps.html http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/screenshots/kde2.php and you can run the very nice gftp: http://gftp.seul.org/screenshots.html if ever you dispair of sftp under the konsole. Make it stop! Yeah, filezilla might be easier than that, but I recomend the putty stuff first. Putty is a single executable file you can nuke if you don't like. No registry writes or any of that other fun Win32 stuff. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ I imagine pscp is equally excellent, and it is! Screenshots of pscp and putty in action, with instructions! http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/local/using-unix/connectingtocs/connectingtocs2.htm Note that this page, showing a swathmore CS computer running Windoze, is a sad sight. Less words, more action: http://www.no.embnet.org/UserSupp/Access/pscp.php3 Rather than fool with paths, I would coppy the executable to the windows directory and let Bill Gates firgure out the difference. I do not think either of these programs can make Windows listen and accept files. You need any commonly available email or browser exploit for that. http://douglas.min.net/mirrors/altern.org/bo2kfun/best.html
