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by **Armon** » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

I have a laptop and a desktop installed with RH 6.1. The network seems
to be ok, can ping each other and even connect via telnet. Now here's
the question. Can I simply move and copy files between the two Linux
machines as I can between two NT 4.0 machines. I can't seem to
find a simple way to do this such as with NT's explorer. Can kfm do
something similar. I've download a lot of bug fixes for RH 6.1 and
would
want to copy them to my notebook and update Linux. Sure would hate
to have to download them again from the Web to my notebook.

Thanks all

rah

by **Armon** » Wed, 05 Apr 2000 04:00:00

> >I have a laptop and a desktop installed with RH 6.1. The network seems
> >to be ok, can ping each other and even connect via telnet. Now here's
> >the question. Can I simply move and copy files between the two Linux
> >machines as I can between two NT 4.0 machines. I can't seem to
> >find a simple way to do this such as with NT's explorer. Can kfm do
> >something similar. I've download a lot of bug fixes for RH 6.1 and
> >would
> >want to copy them to my notebook and update Linux. Sure would hate
> >to have to download them again from the Web to my notebook.

> I am not familiar with KDE, but can kfm do ftp? Otherwise there is always
> ncftp or good old fashioned ftp if there is no kftp (gnome has gftp). But
> you cannot ftp as root. Best to copy files over as a normal user and then
> install them as root.

> If you want to get your laptop on the internet, see the /docs in
> /usr/doc/ipchains and make sure that the internet box has no default route
> other than to the internet. The laptop should point to the LAN IP of the
> inet box as default gw.

> --

> http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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Thanks David, that at least helps me get started. So I need to log in each
box as normal user. Wonder why can't do it as root?

by **David Efflan** » Thu, 06 Apr 2000 04:00:00

>I have a laptop and a desktop installed with RH 6.1. The network seems
>to be ok, can ping each other and even connect via telnet. Now here's
>the question. Can I simply move and copy files between the two Linux
>machines as I can between two NT 4.0 machines. I can't seem to
>find a simple way to do this such as with NT's explorer. Can kfm do
>something similar. I've download a lot of bug fixes for RH 6.1 and
>would
>want to copy them to my notebook and update Linux. Sure would hate
>to have to download them again from the Web to my notebook.

I am not familiar with KDE, but can kfm do ftp? Otherwise there is always
ncftp or good old fashioned ftp if there is no kftp (gnome has gftp). But
you cannot ftp as root. Best to copy files over as a normal user and then
install them as root.

If you want to get your laptop on the internet, see the /docs in
/usr/doc/ipchains and make sure that the internet box has no default route
other than to the internet. The laptop should point to the LAN IP of the
inet box as default gw.

--

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by **patrick.them..** » Thu, 06 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Quote:> I have a laptop and a desktop installed with RH 6.1. The network
seems
> to be ok, can ping each other and even connect via telnet. Now here's
> the question. Can I simply move and copy files between the two Linux
> machines as I can between two NT 4.0 machines. I can't seem to
> find a simple way to do this such as with NT's explorer. Can kfm do
> something similar. I've download a lot of bug fixes for RH 6.1 and
> would
> want to copy them to my notebook and update Linux. Sure would hate
> to have to download them again from the Web to my notebook.

> Thanks all

> rah

i *think* what you want is create a share on your laptop and mount it
on the desktop ( or vice versa)
you can either create a nfs share, and mount it as nfs-filesystem,
or create a sambashare, and mount it as smb-fs.

theres howto on both http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/

after both, you can use your kfm ( or any other ) like you use the
explorer,
that is drag and drop files from one machine to the other.
(tkdesk is a bit limited here)

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by **Mike Schopp** » Thu, 06 Apr 2000 04:00:00

You can ftp to one of your systems as root by removing root from the
/etc/ftpusers file. Just remember to put it back in, especially if you
are connected to the internet.

Mike Schoppe

> > >I have a laptop and a desktop installed with RH 6.1. The network seems
> > >to be ok, can ping each other and even connect via telnet. Now here's
> > >the question. Can I simply move and copy files between the two Linux
> > >machines as I can between two NT 4.0 machines. I can't seem to
> > >find a simple way to do this such as with NT's explorer. Can kfm do
> > >something similar. I've download a lot of bug fixes for RH 6.1 and
> > >would
> > >want to copy them to my notebook and update Linux. Sure would hate
> > >to have to download them again from the Web to my notebook.

> > I am not familiar with KDE, but can kfm do ftp? Otherwise there is always
> > ncftp or good old fashioned ftp if there is no kftp (gnome has gftp). But
> > you cannot ftp as root. Best to copy files over as a normal user and then
> > install them as root.

> > If you want to get your laptop on the internet, see the /docs in
> > /usr/doc/ipchains and make sure that the internet box has no default route
> > other than to the internet. The laptop should point to the LAN IP of the
> > inet box as default gw.

> > --

> > http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
> > http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/

> Thanks David, that at least helps me get started. So I need to log in each
> box as normal user. Wonder why can't do it as root?

by **Mihir A Wagl** » Thu, 06 Apr 2000 04:00:00

NFS is the way to go. mount a directory from one computer on another...

CHeck the NFS-HOWTO...

Mihir Wagle
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> I have a laptop and a desktop installed with RH 6.1. The network seems
> to be ok, can ping each other and even connect via telnet. Now here's
> the question. Can I simply move and copy files between the two Linux
> machines as I can between two NT 4.0 machines. I can't seem to
> find a simple way to do this such as with NT's explorer. Can kfm do
> something similar. I've download a lot of bug fixes for RH 6.1 and
> would
> want to copy them to my notebook and update Linux. Sure would hate
> to have to download them again from the Web to my notebook.

> Thanks all

> rah

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