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?

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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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.

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/

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.

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.

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)_

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?

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).

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.

--
\_(ツ)_

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?

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.

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?

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.)

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.