Yes SSH and SCP are your friends... On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 9:04 PM, Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > > -- 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
