I can't quite figure out where the best place to ask this is, so if you think this should be somewhere else, please do let me know!

I am a heavy user of both Linux and Windows operating systems. I have a home server running Linux which is predominately used for data hosting and distribution. Often, when using a Windows computer, I download a file from the internet and then transfer it to the server for archiving in two separate processes.

Recently, I have experimented with instructing the server to download resources directly using the wget command. However, it gets rather tedious using wget for every file I wish to download.

My question is this: is there a GUI program that runs under a Windows client that can interface with my server, likely via SSH, whereby I can specify an URL for download and a location for the data to be stored on the server?

I know it would be a relatively easy program to write myself, but if something that has the functionality I desire already exists, I see no reason in doing so. (There is also the small problem that I haven't written a program from scratch since school! )

Thanks in advance for your help!

Josh

looks like you need to run a browser on the linux server, and gui should be displayed on windows.

It does mean you will have to put an X server on your Windows workstation.

Another way would be to set up a Samba share on the Linux server so that a Windows computer could save directly to the share.

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or vnc server/client

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The question I have is, "Why bother doing this AT ALL??"

If I'm understanding what you wrote, you have a Linux server, and you want the files you download on it. Great...so, mount a shared drive from your Linux system to your Windows box, using either NFS or Samba. Download whatever you want, and have it saved to the Linux share. If you're downloading from Linux, it saves to the local drive...from Windows, it saves to the network drive which is on Linux.

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Maybe this is what you are looking for:

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Perfect guys! I have no idea why I haven't yet tried saving directly to an SMB share. I guess I wanted to minimise traffic through the Windows machine, since by saving to a SMB, I am effectively doubling the throughput required (WAN data in, LAN data out concurrently).

I will have a look at DownloadDaemon DJ Shaju, it does look promising (and familiar, interestingly). As a "by the way", by a GUI, I was looking for something where I could specify a file URL, output title and output location which would then run a wget command on the server, thereby allowing the server to do all the work, rather than using the PC's resources too. But, until I get really REALLY fast internet, I guess this isn't too much of an issue.

Cheers for all this so far guys. If anyone wants to add anything, feel free, but I will mark this thread as solved nevertheless.

Happy typing!

Josh

...and unless you have a MASSIVE Internet connection, you most certainly would not saturate a very basic 1Gb/s link or even a WiFi connection. You have plenty of bandwidth to spare.