elefino wrote:
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 06:26, Graham Smith wrote:
If you just want to copy files between the two computers on an adhoc basis I suggest you use konqueror with the 'fish' protocol.
Enter in konqueror the URL in the format 'fish://<username>@<ip-address> ' then you can copy and rename files between the two computers.
EEK! Another protocol to learn about, when I haven't nailed down SAMBA and NFS yet. Thanks. I'll look it up. fish is a file sharing protocol through ssh. You only need to have your ssh daemon running (which it is by default). This works great (and is very easy AND secure as a bonus [maybe not an issue in your situation]). This will work for Linux to Linux. For Windows to Linux, get putty and winscp. Winscp is the basic equivalent to fish in Windows. For just sharing files, this would be easiest. If you needed to map directories, this wouldn't work. BTW, to print downstairs, you could just use CUPS to CUPS when she was in Linux, CUPS through Samba (it only uses samba client, no daemons) when she was in Windows. HTH -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871