Transfer between Linux and XP?

Question

I have a Linux laptop (Ubuntu) that I need to move a VERY LARGE file off of to a desktop running XP. These computers are connected over a Linksys wireless router. Burning to a cd is not an option.

Answer 1

Open up your file browser on your linux machine (konquror will be fine). and type in...

smb://{the ip address of your xp machine}/C$

That should give you your xp machines c drive and then drag and drop the file to your xp machine.

RJ

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure you can do it. Just make sure you set up a network between both computers. Make a "shared" folder over the network so both computers can access it. Put the file in that folder and then refresh it on the XP. Open that folder up and it should be able to pull the contents out of the folder.

Hope this works never really messed with Linux

Answer 3

you may want to consider starting your "ftpd" on your linux box if it isn't already running. A "ps -ef | grep ftpd" on the linux command line will tell you if it is running. Once the ftpd is up and running, you should be able to do an ftp from the command line of your XP desktop. You can do this by bringing up the Command Prompt and doing an "ftp" from the command line to your linux box and use your linux username/passwd. You can then do a "get" from within the ftp shell. If it is a binary file, definitely put the transfer in binary mode by typing "binary" in the ftp shell.

If ftpd wasn't previously running and you started it up, you'll probably want to shut it down after the transfer.

Hope this helps...

Keep

Answer 4

properly fairly Linux can examine NTFS partitions which XP makes use of... despite the fact that, XP cant examine linux partitions by potential of default... lol.. the least confusing way for me is get an exterior usb hard rigidity and start up up from there. the two one in all them are waiting to examine/write on that :)

Answer 5

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Answer 6

http://kerneltrap.org/node/5465