How to copy files between computers on an ethernet switch?

[Jeremy Miller]

I think Jon is right. The reason I, and I assume Darrin, recommended
using ssh tools was because there is no setup involved. I have used
those tools many times on my network just because I didn't need a
permanent solution to justify the setup, and that is the same
impression I get from the question.

On 5/23/07, Jon M. Hanson <jon at the-hansons-az.net> wrote:
>
>  The "secure" part may be overkill because it is a local network between two
> computers, but using scp and sftp is really easy especially since every
> Linux distribution I've ever heard of comes with SSH and it's usually
> enabled by default.
>
>  Setting up NFS and Samba is a little more involved.
>
>
>  Michael Sammartano wrote:
>  I am thinking some of you missed the basics, but I may be wrong. He first
> and foremost must give the 2 computers ip addresses. After that he can just
> share a folder. If I am reading this correctly, there is no reason to make
> it a "secure" transfer as there are no other computers on the switch that
> wouls be accessing the 2 computers in question.
> ---- Jeremy Miller <jmminaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> =============
> Yet another way to do that is sftp. It acts just like an ftp server
> and is set up and runs automaticaly if you have ssh running. Assuming
> you are Linux to Linux the command to initiate it is
> username at ip-adress and then you get an ftp console. If one of the
> computers is an M$ or mac or you just don't like command line you can
> use Filezilla as a client by the Mozilla project. If neither of the
> computers is a Linux box I would recomend trying to find a windows
> user group ; ) Hope you can get something working.
>
> On 5/23/07, Darrin Chandler <dwchandler at stilyagin.com> wrote:
>
>
>  On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:10:10AM -0600, Josef Lowder wrote:
>
>
>  .
> Is there an efficient way to copy files between two computers
> on the same ethernet switch? I would like to know what is the
> most efficient way to copy files from one computers to another,
> especially if there is a good way to do this when two computers
> are on the same ethernet switch.
>
> I have been copying files to a flash stick and then physically
> moving the flash stick from one computer to another.
>
> And, I have ftp uploaded (copied) some files from one of my
> computers to my web space, and then downloaded the same files
> to another computer.
>
> But it seems like there must be some more efficient way to
> just send (ftp?) files from one computer to another on my
> locate ethernet network.
>
> Or, could I connect two computers together via their usb ports
> and transfer files that way?
>
>  Yes, these computers are networked and you can transfer files directly
> between them. There are a variety of methods you can use. Just loads of
> methods...
>
> Perhaps the easiest to get going from scratch would be to use scp, as
> long as you have sshd running on one or both computers. Something like
> "scp *.jpg 192.168.1.12:" would do the trick.
>
> Alternatively, you can set up an ftp server on one computer, and access
> it just like any other ftp server.
>
> Also, you can set up samba to provide shares, like on windows...
>
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