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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windows overWiFi?



 
 
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  #16  
Old December 23rd 15, 12:31 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
hank williams
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Default Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?

On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:52:44 +0000, William Unruh wrote:

Or set up linux as an ftp server, (eg vsftpd) and use Windows to get the
ftp file from the linux server.


Thanks for that suggestion.
I ran this, to install the server on Linux:
$ sudo apt-get install vsftpd
Preparing to unpack .../vsftpd_3.0.2-1ubuntu2.14.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking vsftpd (3.0.2-1ubuntu2.14.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Setting up vsftpd (3.0.2-1ubuntu2.14.04.1) ...
vsftpd start/running, process 27240
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...

I'm not sure what to do next though, so I'll look it up.

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Old December 23rd 15, 12:37 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
hank williams
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Default Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?

On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:24:10 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

sftp/ssh should already be installed on most distributions. Test:

ssh localhost

and you get the password prompt, you have it.


I seem to have it.

$ ssh localhost
hank@localhost's password:
Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-48-generic x86_64)

* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/

The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.

Winscp is one of the windows counterparts.


Oh. I see. So that won't work then.

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Old December 23rd 15, 12:42 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
George Schroeder
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["Followup-To:" header set to alt.os.linux.]
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 21:29:46 -0000 (UTC), hank williams wrote:
: On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:07:01 -0500, Wolf K wrote:
:
: I use a USB stick to both transfer files between machines, and to play
: the videos. I don't have a Linux machine any more, but USB memory stick
: was what I used then, too
:
: Thanks everyone for the ideas.
:
: I'm not sure I understand all of the solutions, but there is enough to
: google on, so I'll first just list them at this point & then try them
: next, but most of the suggested installations failed to install on Linux.
:
: 1. Samba, by Marek Novotny, Richard Kettlewell, & J G Miller,
: $ sudo apt-get install samba
: 2. SFTP/SSH, by Marek Novotny
: $ sudo apt-get install openssh-server
: 3. WinsCP, by George Schroeder
: $ sudo apt-get install winscp
: E: Unable to locate package winscp
: 4. PsCP, by Richard Kettlewell
: $ sudo apt-get install pscp
: E: Unable to locate package pscp
: 5. CIFS/NFS, by J G Miller
: $ sudo apt-get install cifs nfs
: E: Unable to locate package cifs
: E: Unable to locate package nfs
: 6. FTP/HTTP server, by Hank Williams
: $ which ftp
: /usr/bin/ftp
: 4. Sneakernet USB stick, by Wolf K
:
I should have given more info on winscp. It is a Windows program, so
apt-get will not find it. You can download it from winscp.net.
It uses ssh to transfer files between the Windows and Linux systems.

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Old December 23rd 15, 12:46 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
J G Miller
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Default Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?

On Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015, at 21:35:16h +0000,
Hank Williams asked:

What's the command to install an Apache HTTP server on Linux?


On Debian based systems, they decided to differentiate between
apache v1 releases and apache v2 releases. Even though apache v1
is no longer available, only apache v2, the apache package is
still named apache2. Similar to this, the DNS package is named bind9.

So apt-get install apache2

ii apache2 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.8 Apache HTTP Server
ii apache2-bin 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.8 Apache HTTP Server (binary files and modules)
ii apache2-data 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.8 Apache HTTP Server (common files)
ii apache2-doc 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.8 Apache HTTP Server (on-site documentation)
ii apache2-utils 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.8 Apache HTTP Server (utility programs for web servers)

There are two significant light weight alternatives to apache2, namely
lighthttpd and nginx, with nginx supposedly having the edge, but personal
preferences (eg configuration syntax) will play a large part in whether
people argue for one of the other.

One downside of nginx is that if you want to add add-on functionality (eg scgi),
one has to re-compile the binary to include that add-on, no dynamic modules
(last time I checked anyways).
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Old December 23rd 15, 12:53 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?

On Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015, at 22:45:21h +0000,
Hank Williams wrote:

My first "guess" happens when the tutorial expects a fully
qualified domain name when I don't have a FQDN at all.


So long as you ensure that it does not leak out into the Internet
(viz e-mail headers which do not get deleted or rewritten), you
can always use a fictitious domain name on your LAN.

What Windows apparently needs (example from the tutorial):
192.168.0.100 server1.example.com ubuntu


Seeing as windows is going to be using the SAMBA server,
it should not care about the FQDN and just using the simple
LMHOSTS names for SAMBA/CIFS hosts and if you are not running
a local DNS, you can just put the hostname without the domain
name but with the IP address in the Windows C host file.

Of course whenever you have a server on your LAN, it makes
sense to ensure that it has a static IP address, which may be
more of an issue for you.
  #21  
Old December 23rd 15, 12:54 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
William Unruh
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On 2015-12-22, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2015-12-22 22:29, hank williams wrote:

Thanks everyone for the ideas.

I'm not sure I understand all of the solutions, but there is enough to
google on, so I'll first just list them at this point & then try them
next, but most of the suggested installations failed to install on Linux.


sftp/ssh should already be installed on most distributions. Test:

ssh localhost

and you get the password prompt, you have it.

Winscp is one of the windows counterparts.


Or use putty.



Samba, nfs, ftp, http... all need configuration and install, depending
on your distribution.


Write to a usb stick is the easiest to do, but slower that local cabled
network (1000Mb/s). Possibly same speed than wifi.


Not if it is usb3.


  #22  
Old December 23rd 15, 12:58 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
William Unruh
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On 2015-12-22, hank williams wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:56:11 +0000, William Unruh wrote:

You can use hank on Windows as well.
192.168.0.100 hank


Thanks.

The tutorial just *assumes* you already know this answer!

The ip address is the important part.
The name is just there as an easy mnemonic for you.


That brings me to my *second* guess, which, again, the tutorial
just assumes you know the answer to.
https://www.howtoforge.com/samba-ser...untu-14.04-lts

Since I have a typical home system, which uses DHCP on the home
router, so whatever the IP address of the Linux laptop is today
will be *different* tomorrow.


You can always tell you home router to use static IP for laptop.


While it's easy enough to find the IP address of the Linux
laptop today using ifconfig, do I have to edit the Windows
hosts file every single day to change it each time it changes
on the Linux laptop?
$ ifconfig
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0a:CF:9A:22:43
inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

The tutorial doesn't say.

Do I have to edit the Windows hosts file every single time the
Linux machine boots to a new DHCP local LAN IP address?


Yes. Or you can use the ip address rather than the hostname
ssh 192.160.0.107
Or you can tell you router to always give the same address to your
laptop (or rather to any machine with its MAC address.)


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Old December 23rd 15, 02:12 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On 2015-12-22, hank williams wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 20:42:13 +0000, Jasen Betts wrote:

apache, it saves installing stuff on windows.


$ sudo apt-get install apache
E: Package 'apache' has no installation candidate
$ apt-cache search apache
Lists too much stuff
$ apt-cache search apache | grep httpd
libapache2-mod-svn - Apache Subversion server modules for Apache httpd
libapache2-svn - Apache Subversion server modules for Apache httpd (dummy package)
$ sudo apt-cache search 'web server'
Again lists too much stuff to make sense out of the results

What's the command to install an Apache HTTP server on Linux?


Apache as not much easier to configure than samba. possibly harder.
samba can usually be configured with only carful reading of the default
config file. I often find I need to search documentation to configure
apache.

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  #24  
Old December 23rd 15, 03:52 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windows overWiFi?

On 12/22/2015 3:27 PM, hank williams wrote:

Do I have to edit the Windows hosts file every single time the
Linux machine boots to a new DHCP local LAN IP address?

Use address reservation in your router to assign the same
IP address every time to each machine's MAC address.
The benefits of static IP while maintaining DHCP flexibility.

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Old December 23rd 15, 04:13 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Clément
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William Unruh wrote:

Write to a usb stick is the easiest to do, but slower that local cabled
network (1000Mb/s). Possibly same speed than wifi.


Not if it is usb3.


'cept that it has to be copied twice, and, if you don't unmount
gracefully, your entire hard disk drive corrupts itself (ask me
how I know).

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Old December 23rd 15, 05:05 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On 2015-12-23 00:37, hank williams wrote:
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:24:10 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:



Winscp is one of the windows counterparts.


Oh. I see. So that won't work then.


Why not? It is what you asked for, transfer files from/to Windows/Linux.
Just the tool.

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Old December 23rd 15, 05:11 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On 2015-12-23 00:54, William Unruh wrote:
On 2015-12-22, Carlos E.R. wrote:


Winscp is one of the windows counterparts.


Or use putty.


But that is only the terminal, right? Not for copying files across.

There is also "mobaxterm". Has all things: terminal, two panel file
manager, and graphical terminal. ie, 'X', on Windows. Very nice and simple.

Write to a usb stick is the easiest to do, but slower that local cabled
network (1000Mb/s). Possibly same speed than wifi.


Not if it is usb3.


Ah, true. I don't have any of those, so I forgot. But usb-flash media,
even on usb3, are slow write devices. You need a real hard disk:
rotating rust or SSD. Not a cheap stick :-)


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Old December 23rd 15, 06:41 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On 2015-12-23, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2015-12-23 00:54, William Unruh wrote:
On 2015-12-22, Carlos E.R. wrote:


Winscp is one of the windows counterparts.


Or use putty.


But that is only the terminal, right? Not for copying files across.


psftp pscp are all parts of putty.

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Old December 23rd 15, 05:02 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On 22/12/15 19:12, hank williams wrote:
Periodically I have large video files that I'd like to transfer
(copy or move) from Linux to Windows (rarely the other way)
over my local network.

What's the easiest way to transfer large files from Linux to
Windows?

I tried setting up samba on linux but that failed miserably.
I'm thinking a second bet might be an ftp server on linux?

What do you use to transfer large files from linux to
windows over your local LAN?


Put the files on Microsoft Onedrive and from there you can download on
any machine!!!!!!!!!!

Simple.


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Old December 28th 15, 04:40 PM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On 12/22/15 23:56, William Unruh wrote:
On 2015-12-22, hank williams wrote:
Since most suggested Samba, I'll try to get that running again:
https://www.howtoforge.com/samba-ser...untu-14.04-lts

But, I always hate Linux tutorials because they assume everything
is absolutely perfect, and when it's not (which *always* happens),
then you have to guess.

When "I" guess, everything fails. But I'll ask you what to guess
this time, and hope that this helps me get past the guesses in
the tutorial.

My first "guess" happens when the tutorial expects a fully
qualified domain name when I don't have a FQDN at all.

But the tutorial just *assumes* I put my Linux FQDN into the
Windows hosts file.

What I see as my Linux FQDN:
$ hostname -f
hank

$ cat /etc/hostname
hank

$ head /etc/hosts | grep hank
127.0.1.1 hank

What Windows apparently needs (example from the tutorial):
192.168.0.100 server1.example.com ubuntu


You can use hank on Windows as well.
192.168.0.100 hank


If you're using mdns you can just use hank.local to find the server.


 




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