[oclug]Moving files form Windows to Linux

[Brian Johnson]

Fastest option with least amount of setup (but most amount of hardware work)
- remove the hard drive from the Windows machine and put it in the Linux machine as
a secondary hard drive
- restart the linux box and mount the new hard drive (Mandrake might autosense it
and ask you where to mount it)
- copy the file you want
- move the hard drive back


Silly option
- have one machine dial the other and transfer the file via modem
- would take hours to transfer a 22Mb file
- you would likely have problems setting up a dial-in server if you know nothing
about networking
- you would be the joke amongst all your geekier friends


Longer term and more elegant solution
- get a hub or a router and create a small (two machine LAN)
- configure the network cards
- configure Samba on the Linux box so it will talk to the Windows box
- could take you weeks of troubleshooting if you don't have a clue about networking
- would provide you with a solid system that would work for years


William Bradley (bradleyw at magma.ca) 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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