On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:37:07 -0600 Cindy wrote: > > Ok, here's where I am now. > > I got SuSE Linux installed on both of my machines and can see my > Windows partitions - it mounted it for me. > > I think I got NFS running on both machines, but when I try to copy > from one machine's windows partition to the other machine, I get a > 'permission denied' error.
Have you configured NFS shares on a machine, and have you mounted them from the other machine? Is there a line in the /etc/fstab with "nfs" in the third column? If yes, please post fstab here. > > I used ssh to bring up a shell from computer B on computer A , but > once I did that successfully, I wasn't sure what the copy command > would be to get the files over to computer A. Wrong. You don't log in with ssh and then copy, you use ssh's special command scp to copy files. Let's say you want to copy the directory "stuff" from the home directory of the user "cindy" on the machine with the address 192.168.0.5, to the home directory of user "cindy2" on the machine with the address 192.168.0.6, you'd type (on the latter): scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cindy/stuff /home/cindy2/ You'll be prompted for the password (of cindy on 192.168.0.5, NB), and it will copy ( -r for recursively, scp uses the similar, or perhaps identical, set of options as the usual cp command) "stuff" to /home/cindy. You can also do this from the machine 192.168.0.5; you just switch the two arguments: scp -r /home/cindy/stuff [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cindy2/ For local directories (those on the machine you're scp-ing from), you use the syntax you'd use with cp; for the remote machine, it's somewhat different: you have to specify the username you want to use for this operation (of an user existant on the remote machine), then the separator "@", then the IP address (or the name, if you run DNS or have other ways to resolve names), then the separator ":" and then the path on the remote machine. > > I tried to burn a CD on the machine with the Windows partition, but it > wouldn't let me do that either - said something about the files being > in the wrong format or something like that - I assumed it was because > I was copying from an ntfs file structure to the CD in Linux? Wrong. Which file system you're getting the data that you want to burn a CD from is irrelevant (as long as your OS can read the filesystem in question). We can't tell what's wrong here without more detail. What utility have you used to burn the CD? Which steps have you taken? > > Anyway, I am finally, successfully (at least so far) copying my > windows files from the windows partition to the Linux partition on the > same machine. Then I'm hoping to have more luck copying the files to > the other machine. That'll work, don't worry. Cheers -- Horror Vacui Registered Linux user #257714 Go get yourself... counted: http://counter.li.org/ - and keep following the GNU. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
