Sharing Files on Mandrake
I have an old HP that I switched over to Mandrake Linux when Win 98 was just too horrendous to bear any longer. I recently got a new computer though, and I am running Mandriva on it. The problem is I want to get about 9-10 gigs of info (music/papers) from my old computer to my new, but when I set the old one up on the network It won't allow me to share any files. I go through to configure the sharing and everything there seems to work fine, but when I right click again on the file it doesn't give me the option to share it like it should. I've tried rebooting and everything like that but I still can't get it to share. Any body that can help?
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I can't really help you with the GUI side of transmitting the file since I am not too familiar with the Mandrake distribution. Although, from a base Linux perspective, it might be best to start the ftp daemon service on your new box and just ftp in from your old one and send the data. You can also do the same with NFS if you want to. Does the old box show an IP in 'ifconfig' and are you able to see the remote PC?
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^ i need help with exactly how I would ftp into the new computer from the old.
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I would setup an ssh server on the box that is holding the information that you want. Then you can scp (secure copy) the files to your machine. The advantage of this method is you can copy any file you want in any direction. I would suggest you learn to use this utility.
Also, you can setup an ftp server on the box holding the files and use ftp to copy them down. The scp syntax is Code:
scp <source> <destination> Code:
scp user@remote_box:/directory/files/you/want /where/you/want_files_locally |
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^I meant folder, i'm not that much of a n00b.
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To ftp into the remote client, you need to verify that you are getting an IP on the old box. Run 'ifconfig -a' on the old box and put it in your reply. If you get an IP, then also include the results of 'ifconfig -a' on the new box.
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It won't let me run ifconfig -a on my old computer.
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Are you root when you run it and what is the message you get?
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nevermind
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ok, here's what it says.
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:44:A4:77 inet addr:65.188.151.22 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.248.0 inet6 addr: fe80::210:b5ff:fe44:a477/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:354069 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2298 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:22189918 (21.1 Mb) TX bytes:337958 (330.0 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:68:4D:6A inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fe68:4d6a/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:415 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:543 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:36318 (35.4 Kb) TX bytes:114834 (112.1 Kb) Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6000 Memory:e3800000-e3800fff lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:130 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:130 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:8488 (8.2 Kb) TX bytes:8488 (8.2 Kb) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) |
when i run scp user@address:/source/directory /destination/directory
it gives me this ssh: connect to host 65.188.151.22 port 22: Connection refused |
could it be my firewall?
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