[oclug]Moving files form Windows to Linux

gabriel the.angel.gabriel at rogers.com
Tue Nov 26 18:52:31 EST 2002


the easiest thing to do would be share the directory in windows and then 
install samba on the linux box (there should be an rpm).  then just use 
smbclient to connect to the windows share and copy what you need.

check the man page for details.



On November 26, 2002 06:28 pm, William Bradley wrote:
> I have two machines sitting side by side. Both of them have network
> cards and I have two phone lines coming into the house. One has Mandrake
> 9.0 on one and Windows 98 on the other. There is a 22 megabyte file on
> the Windows machine that I want to transfer to the Mandrake machine.What
> is the simplest approach to do this? Realizing that my expertise is
> limited. (There is no CD burner on the Windows machine that has the file
> I want to move).

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