Linux To windows

General Computing Microsoft Windows
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I have a linux and a windows both are on a LAN but… I dont know how to transfer the files from the linux to the windows… I dont want to use a cd because There is way to much data to be transfered I heard I need a SAH client but i cant seem to find one boinc I cant seem to understand and dont even know if it will work for what I need can someone please help me out here

Also its mostly media im trying to transfer

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You need the Samba client (or SMB for short) (if it’s ubuntu, the command is sudo apt-get install samba smbfs)

Download it via the package manager and make sure both the Windows machines and the linux machines are on the same workgroup. Then you can transfer the data niely.

You have to share the files in linux that you need sharing. Edit the file /etc/samba/smb.conf. To have window style shares where no password is needed have under authentication set to

secuurity = share

Add the to the base of the file the folder to be shared (in the same format as this)

[My Music]
path = "/home/chris/Documents/My Music"
available = yes
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = no

It’s got nothing to do with BOINC.

HTH

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You don’t say which distro of Linux you are using , but Drezha is right , Samba is the way to go for drag and drop style data transfer , Ubuntu and Fedora Core x are relatively easy to set up , Suse is more difficult but there are several guides out there just use Google

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in fact you don’t even need to set up a samba share on the linux box…

just use the smbmount command to mount your windows shares directly :wink:

if you can’t be bothered will all that techy stuff, you could always just transfer via ftp, or even a good old usb pen :smiley:

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[QUOTE=Spaceboy;374412]in fact you don’t even need to set up a samba share on the linux box…

just use the smbmount command to mount your windows shares directly :wink:

if you can’t be bothered will all that techy stuff, you could always just transfer via ftp, or even a good old usb pen :D[/QUOTE]

Well…you need Smbfs to mount a samba file system IIRC.
And considering it’s Linux to windows, he has to create the share on the linux box to view it on the Windows rig :wink: