Enabling FTP between window and Linux machine
 

Hi,

I need to enable FTP data transfer between Window machine (Win-XP/Win-7) and Linux machine (Red-hat/Fedora(11/17)) through command line. Both these machines are in same subnet.
I need this functionality for Automation purpose.

Please help me in following:
> Services enabling requirement in window and linux machine for FTP. Is there different mechanism for enabling services for different OS of window and Linux?
> Since i need to perform both directions FTP data transfer, Suggestion required whether i should perform FTP in Linux machine and execute mput/mget or vice versa.
> How can i measure bandwidth of data transfer..

Please help me. Any other suggestion is also welcom.

TIA,
RajAgl

Windows does not come as standard with an FTP service although several are available.

What may suit you better is to look at SAMBA on the Linux side and standard "folder sharing" on the Windows side.

That will let you mount shares at known points in both file systems thus letting you use standard cp/copy commands to do your file transfer.

in addition you can look into something like FileZilla for scp transfers controlled from the MS Box allowing both push/pull of data. this is one of the options I use on my one MS box to my linux server as well as to all of my linux workstations and my OSx workstations.

if FTP is required then setup FTP on Fedora is rather straight forward. there are several out there and plenty of HOWTO guides as well.

As Fedora 11 is no longer supported you might find it much harder to install the FTP server there and Fedora 17 is coming out of support soon if it is not already out of support. You might consider using fedup on the Fedora 17 box(es) to upgrade them to Fedora 19 for both better performance and support and security patches as you will be using one of the most insecure data transfer protocols out there.

https://www.google.com/search?q=howt...hrome&ie=UTF-8

that is a fast google search that should provide you what you need.

also keep in mind that with FileZilla you can use the built in "automated tasks" on the MS Boxes to perform both push/pull of data via scp to/from your Linux boxes. This would be MUCH more secure, easy to setup and configure, as well as provide you with a means to monitor the bandwidth usage for each transfer.

Windows (at least the server versions out of the box) may include IIS, which comes with a fully integrated FTP server.

Win7's Task Manager is able to show bandwith usage, Win7's performance monitor can show bandwith usage even on task level, e.g. the FTP server/client's bandwith isage.
On Linux you may have a look at iotop and atop for bandwith usage.