Re: file transfer between Linux and XP home computers?
From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 01/24/04
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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:52:31 +0100
Martin Blume <mblume@socha.net> wrote:
> "WWW" <ouiNOouiliSPAMouinqui@yahoo.nospam.com> schrieb
> > I'd like to be able to transfer files between my Linux (Red Hat
> > 7) and XP computers at home. Don't know how, hardware or
> > software.
[..]
> If you exchange often and big files, you'd be better off buying
> two network cards, a hub / switch, two cables and connect the two
> computers together. The process is relatively painless (don't know
[..]
Ack, but then you don't need a hub/switch with two boxes, a
crossover network cable and two NICs will work fine, the OP
should be able to get two 10MBit PCI cards for virtually nothing.
> > I can write directly to the serial port with e.g. "cat
> >/dev/ttyS0", but I think XP is expecting to receive TCP/IP
> > packets, not simple ascii transmission.
> You could use a serial null-modem cable and transfer with any
> serial modem connection program (hyperterm, minicom, kermit).
Yep, that should work, but 115000 bit/sec won't be really fast.
Getting some cheapo (+supported) NICs should be the best advice.
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