Ben T. Fender composed on 2024-02-25 22:15 (UTC-0500):
Sun, 25 Feb 2024 21:32:44 -0500 Felix Miata composed:
Ben T. Fender composed on 2024-02-25 21:12 (UTC-0500):
Any way to just open a file-mangler on both and drag files back and forth?
It's the only way I do it, mostly (sans mouse) using mc and fcl, which work with or without working GUI:
(man) nfs
for exporting native Linux filesystems (through /etc/exports), which can be mounted just like any other native mounting is done, using fstab entries or other methods for routine ones, and 'mount -t nfs' for the non-routine.
I like the mouse, and GUI,
My point was not about choice of UI, but that I can take a screenshot with Spectacle on one PC, and save it directly onto the filesystem of some other PC on the LAN.
but the main problem that I see is the speed i.e. the LACK of any! Getting about 3 MB/s on a 80gb image file :-(
IME, the only speed limitation ordinarily is in the LAN connectivity hardware path. If a 10/100 or worse is in the transfer path, the switch or other device with 10/100 is the bottleneck, not any LAN or NFS software. Is the switch you're using Gigabit or better? 10/100 can be slow. I just copied a 8,051,032,064 byte .iso to a 10/100 target with EXT3 filesystem on ICH7 SATA HDD with barely that much freespace, from my LAN server, probably a worst case short of copying to USB 2.0. It took 14m16s, leaving: # df /data Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda11 19259865 18058659 228473 99% /data # -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata