Re: USB on Debian Potato?

Mike Fontenot staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Aragorn wrote:
Mike Fontenot wrote in /comp.os.linux.hardware:
Is a NIC an ethernet port?
NIC = Network Interface Connector.
If so, both computers have one. Assuming that's what you mean, how
do I get the two computers to talk to each other?
Yes, provided that one of the computers is running an NFS server

There are ... problems with NFS. It's comparatively easy to cause a
kernel hang/OOPS with NFS, for one thing. If these machines are not
going to be connected all the time, it's probably not worth setting NFS
up.

But without the NFS stuff, I can presumably do an ftp between the old
and new machine, right? That sounds like the only solution I've heard
that might not require installing any addtional software,

One of the machines has to be running an FTP server. Since it's not
that common to need one of those, you may not have one installed. It's
probable that you have sshd running on at least one machine, though.
With sshd, you can use scp, or rsync, or sftp, or any of a few GUI
frontends to those things. (Try typing sftp://user@host/ into a
Konqueror window, substituting a valid hostname and a valid username.)

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