I too have been watching this, I used to service machines that were designed back in the late 90's they had updated the HIM's from 95 and NT to WinXP, I always carried a linux box as my laptop, the quick solution was jump drives forever and ever.
Yes I have set up two machines to talk to one another over the Cat5/6 cable, but using a jump drive is so much easier, even when the functionality had been turned off in the BIOS, reboot and turn it back on. In the time you have spent trying to sort this out you could have purchased a jump drive at the local truck stop (with a nude girl on it too boot) and got it done. You can do what you want to do over Ethernet, but you will need to hit the key- board a bit and set some things, up, with the jump drive it should just work... Now if you want a running link between the two machines then you will want to setup the networked connection between the two. Again, I keep a few older routers around and I use one of these for that sort of thing it hands out IPs to the machines in question, then depending on what is on each machine I use whatever I have at hand to push and pull files from one to the other. If you are using wired connections you will just need to look at assignment to each NIC to see what is going on, or link to your router web page and look at what it shows on the client list. In your case the jump drive thing would take me about 30 seconds to get the drive recognized (max even on a low WinXP system) and then the time to put or pull the file off of the jump drive. Linux will recognize a jump drive in less than a second (on my machines at least) and push pull files off quite fast. Going to the Ethernet with a router, plug machines into router power up router power up machines and take a look see at what IP addy's they get, then you can probably use the Linux machine to go in and look at the WinXP machine with very little fiddling. Going the other way is a bit slower, but not that big a deal. I think that you are making it too complex, but maybe I am missing something. On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 7:16 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Don't need and FTP server if you use ssh and scp. Windows has putty for > > ssh and other ssh commands. > > It's still complicated :-). > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
