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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Temporary Solution To Samba
I don't have to transfer files from Windows to Ubuntu Linux very often, so I can email them over.
Samba has got too many config options for me to help you via the comment boxes.
But if you just want to occasionally transfer files Windows -> Linux you should just use ssh. It's easy (sudo apt-get install openssh-server) to set up on Ubuntu and on windows you can use the famous putty family of windows ssh clients. Download pscp.exe from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html and from a windows command line:
Samba has got too many config options for me to help you via the comment boxes.
ReplyDeleteBut if you just want to occasionally transfer files Windows -> Linux you should just use ssh. It's easy (sudo apt-get install openssh-server) to set up on Ubuntu and on windows you can use the famous putty family of windows ssh clients. Download pscp.exe from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html and from a windows command line:
> pscp.exe foo.zip user@ubuntu-box:/home/user/windows_files