Linux How to transfer data between Win7 Laptop and Linux desktop ?

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Well my friend cam up with his laptop with Win7 installed. I tried to connect the Lappy via LAN and was unable to get it working for data transfer. I looked for smb:// but no device was shown nor the network folder showed it.

How am I suppose to transfer file from my PC to his and vice versa. Also he does have Ubuntu installed but again it was all futile.

What I did is installed samba and even tried configuring NFS but since I haven't done this stuff it was kind of haywire.

Please do let me know the settings needed.

Regards
 
Re: How to transfer data betwwen Win7 Laptop and Linux desktop ?

If you have samba installed, then create a samba share for the location you want to share on your desktop. Then from windows laptop enter \\IP in Windows Explorer and you will be able to see the files.

I manage my samba shares etc through Webmin and creating and managing permissions etc is very simple.
 
Re: How to transfer data betwwen Win7 Laptop and Linux desktop ?

the easy way if you want to do samba shares is to install webmin, it has a pretty nice gui and there are all kind of installable modules that will let you change the settings from gui instead of terminal....... like samba. I have been using webmin a lot on my etrayz device to setup up samba shares.. it's super easy.
 
Re: How to transfer data betwwen Win7 Laptop and Linux desktop ?

alternative methods:

ipmsg

dc++

ipmsg will work oob and dc++ will require extra configuration.

both of above will work well if IP is configured in static mode for the concerned network adapters.

both ipmsg and dc++ are available over win7 as well as linux.
 
Re: How to transfer data betwwen Win7 Laptop and Linux desktop ?

Ok will try that. I have tried giver (both had Ubuntu installed) but Giver didn't showed his deskop in my giver windows and vice versa.

What are we missing in this part ? Some IP settings needs to be done before making a LAN ? Will try that FTP thing.

But before I do I want to ask few things. Will that FTP I make work in LAN ? Apart from that will he be able to add files or I need to install same file at his PC too ?

Edit : Just tried quickserve. Its darn easy :D All I need is test the same in different PC :D
 
Re: How to transfer data betwwen Win7 Laptop and Linux desktop ?

it should. Because its a simple Python script. just download it and execute. It should work anywhere where you got python installed -- any distro. I run this on ArchLinux but it should work on Ubuntu also.

Dark Star said:
Edit : Just tried quickserve. Its darn easy :D All I need is test the same in different PC :D
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Glad, I could help. In another PC, use the IP address where QS is running instead of localhost. it would work :D
 
Re: How to transfer data betwwen Win7 Laptop and Linux desktop ?

Gaurish said:
it should. Because its a simple Python script. just download it and execute. It should work anywhere where you got python installed -- any distro. I run this on ArchLinux but it should work on Ubuntu also.
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Thanks.. :) It's working..
 
Re: How to transfer data betwwen Win7 Laptop and Linux desktop ?

^^the quick share thing is awesome . Will check your thread and work with samba as well :)
 
Re: How to transfer data betwwen Win7 Laptop and Linux desktop ?

Win7 sharing and mounting as SMB on Ubuntu had worked for me when I tried it (dont have Win7 at the moment). But the easiest alternative for me was to install openssh-server package in ubuntu and run the free WinSCP tool on Win7 to get a quick and easy up and running GUI file transfer.
 
Re: How to transfer data betwwen Win7 Laptop and Linux desktop ?

simply install proftpd on your linux system , btw samba is not so easy but correct way to do it ,
 
Re: How to transfer data betwwen Win7 Laptop and Linux desktop ?

can someone give me a step by step procedure to do the same for a noob.

I tried via SMB installed on the Ubuntu 10.10 with an ip of 192.168.1.4, and the share my local system showed up well.

I went to the Win7 Laptop and typed \\192.168.1.4 (ip of the Linux SMB machine)

The share show up, but i cannot access it, it shows not enough permissions.

I changed the permission of my share to FULL CONTROL, but still no luck
 
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