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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windows overWiFi?
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? |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?
On 2015-12-22, 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? Well, it's not the fastest protocol but SFTP, part of the Linux SSH suite should already be there and work just fine for the large once in a while transfer. Samba is my first choice though. There is always good old fashioned SneakerNet(r). -- Marek Novotny https://github.com/marek-novotny |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?
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On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:12:50 -0000 (UTC), 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? : I have found that winscp is an easy way to transfer files between Windows and Linux. Never done really large files, so I don't know how efficient it is. |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windows over WiFi?
hank williams writes:
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? pscp and samba. -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/ |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?
On Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015, at 19:12:50h +0000,
Hank Williams asked: What's the easiest way to transfer large files from Linux to Windows? SAMBA/CIFS gets the job done. I tried setting up samba on linux but that failed miserably. So you need to try again after reading the documentation and/or getting some help on the points you do not understand. I'm thinking a second bet might be an ftp server on linux? This will do the job but not really ideal for what you are wanting to do. If you have an NFS client on your Windoze boxes, you could just use NFS which is much simpler to get working than SAMBA/CIFS. If you want to be platform neutral and just want to watch the video files (after all, why are you wanting to copy them over to a Windoze box in the first place), then a DLNA server would be the thing to install and then you can play your video files wherever you have a DLNA media player eg on your Windoze boxes, on your TV, on your other media devices. The very easiest one to get up and running and the one that just works is ReadyMedia (the DLNA media server previously known as MiniDLNA) http://sourceforge.NET/projects/minidlna/ But remember that uPnP/DLNA does not work across subnets without the aid of multicast routers. |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?
On 2015-12-22, 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? perhaps instead an ssh server and filezilla for the client. What do you use to transfer large files from linux to windows over your local LAN? apache, it saves installing stuff on windows. -- \_(ツ)_ |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windows overWiFi?
On 12/22/2015 11:12 AM, 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? I put a simple http file server on the windows machine. Anything with a browser can transfer files to/from the http server. No worries/issues with protocols or passwords/credentials at all. It just works. Also works across the web. Trivial to configure. Turn it off when not in use and security won't be an issue. www.rejetto.com HFS. |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?
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 |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?
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? |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?
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 I'm not a *.com as I'm just a homeowner. I have an ISP but he isn't a big company. So what do I use for my Linux FQDN in the Windows hosts file? Do I just use "hank" or hank.something?.com? |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?
On 2015-12-22, 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? Probably quickest would be to copy to the usb stick and then read it off in Windows. Or set up linux as an ftp server, (eg vsftpd) and use Windows to get the ftp file from the linux server. I would use wired rather than wireless-- faster. |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?
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 I'm not a *.com as I'm just a homeowner. I have an ISP but he isn't a big company. So what do I use for my Linux FQDN in the Windows hosts file? Do I just use "hank" or hank.something?.com? The ip address is the important part. The name is just there as an easy nemonic for you. |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windows overWiFi?
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? The world is divided into two nice neat groups :-) Those who can deal with the security walls built around our networking implementions. And those who cannot deal with it. Your Windows machine, already has SAMBA running on it, as Windows file sharing. Most of the Linux clients will already be able to talk to the Windows box immediately, without installing packages. The more modern the Windows box is, the more pesky is the security. When I set older Windows boxes for wide open permissions, it usually works. A more modern Windows can be annoying you with the authentication box when it isn't needed. In terms of approaches, you can "push" or "pull" files. On my network, the choice is made based on the performance asymmetry. One of my machines only does 20MB/sec over GbE, so I need to "push" from that machine, to a machine that can do 112MB/sec continuously. One direction can be five times faster than the other direction, in terms of who has the server, and who is the client. Adding additional interfacing standards, is I suppose like playing the lottery. But generally, on modern tools, it's pretty hard to shake the concepts of security - virtually everything will involve SSH or use passwords, and involve messing around. (Windows 8 has HomeGroup, which is fine for homogenous environments, but useless for anything else, and I don't use that here. The odds of two machines using that at the same time, is slim.) Only twenty years ago, did we have tools that implemented "private" authentication. You could set up account "joe" password "joe" and it would apply only to your FTP server. Rather than relying on the accounts and passwords used by the OS. Those were the good days, when it was easy to do stuff. Now, you will find OSes which deprecate the easy ways, and only leave the hard ways. ******* And while they claim to be making very fast USB3 flash sticks, the benchmarks don't always pan out. http://www.storagereview.com/patriot...h_drive_review You could always stick an SSD inside a USB3 enclosure that has UASP support, and give that a try as a substitute for a flash stick. Then transfer the stuff via sneakernet. ******* And if you're bored, you can try this. For rcp usage. http://rshd.sourceforge.net/ Paul |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windows overWiFi?
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. 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. -- Cheers, Carlos. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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Easiest way to transfer large (video) from Linux to Windowsover WiFi?
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. 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? |
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