Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thinker wrote:
> 2nd try...
>
>
> I am currently using SuSE 8.2 (ftp version). I have Mandrake 9.0(MDK)
> installed on one box and Windows 2000 Professional (W2K)on another.
>
> The ultimate goal is to use the SuSE 8.2 box for work and such until
> SuSE 9.0 gets here. When the new SuSE gets here, I would like to have
> the MDK box clean and available. In order to do that, I need to copy my
> home directory from the MDK box to both the SuSE 8.2 box (for use of
> files) and more importantly to the W2K box (since it is the only machine
> with a working CD Burner).
>
> I cannot get ssh server installed correctly on the Mandrake box. I can see the box in LinNeighborhood but I cannot copy any files.
>
> How do I 'share' a directory so that I can copy the contents to both the Windows and SuSE 8.2 boxes?
>
> What is the easiest way to do this?

Either you manage to configure samba the right way, or you install a 
simple ftp server and log in, through ftp, as regular user.

Simple ftp servers: ftpd (BSD linux port) or wu-ftpd.  These ftp daemons 
require no configuration for access as regular user.

The ftp daemon is activated with "disable=no" in /etc/xinetd.conf or 
/etc/xinetd.d, depending on how it's configured in Mandrake.