Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-09 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Try [http://winscp.net/eng/index.php WinScp]. Regards, Dov To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread aamehl
Hi all, I need a way to get some files from my home computer (Ubuntu) and bring them to my work computer. I don't want any permanent solution, but something like scp. I tried the pscp from putty but it won't open for me. I of course can't fiddle with win network settings. I was able to enter

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Omer Zak
The quickdirty method, which I use, is to combine a Web site and FTP: First, upload the relevant files from one computer to a subdirectory in a Web site, which you control, and which has room for those files (in a password-protected subdirectory already set up). Then, download those files into the

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
what about FTP ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I need a way to get some files from my home computer (Ubuntu) and bring them to my work computer. I don't want any permanent solution, but something like scp. I tried the pscp from putty but it won't open for me. I of course can't fiddle

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 16:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I need a way to get some files from my home computer (Ubuntu) and bring them to my work computer. I don't want any permanent solution, but something like scp. I tried the pscp from putty but it won't open for me. I of

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Alex
Hey Aaron :) pscp from putty is a command line utility, without GUI! So if you're waiting for a dialog you're out of luck! Just open a command prompt and run it. Should work right away and is pretty easy to use (its similar to scp). Give it a try! Alex On Wednesday 08 March 2006 16:37, you

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:37:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I need a way to get some files from my home computer (Ubuntu) and bring them to my work computer. I don't want any permanent solution, but something like scp. I tried the pscp from putty but it won't open for

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Aaron! If ssh is working then scp and SFTP will also work. Totally off-topic for this thread, but I'll just mention that this is not always the case. The most common failure that causes SSH to work but SFTP and SCP to fail is a .bashrc script that issues output even when

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Diego Iastrubni
WinSCP is an MS-Windows based SFTP/SCP client. it has an explorer/midnight command like interface and even registers itself as the sftp:// url handler so you can do WIN+R and type sftp://mycomputer to log in. Nice, did not know that trick. I used to have winscp on my DOK. It's a single

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Aaron
Hey, Thanks for all the replys, I used win scp and it worked like a charm. Thanks again, Aaron * Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060308 23:04]: Hey Aaron :) pscp from putty is a command line utility, without GUI! So if you're waiting for a dialog you're out of luck! Just open a command prompt

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 3/9/06, Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Thanks for all the replys, I used win scp and it worked like a charm. Congratulations. As for the security of this - I keep ssh open on my computer (which is online 24/7) and use some random non-standard port to cut down on the amount of probes I