How to transfer files between computers on a network

[Ryan Rix]

>     inet 192.168.1.66/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
Yes, it's the first number after inet.

>     inet 192.168.1.64/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
again, first after inet.

What I personally would do, though it's a bit of a pain to set up, is if your 
router supports DHCP reservations (dlink G router does here) you can give 
each compy a 'static' dhcp address.

After you have them all rounded up you can add entries to /etc/hosts
192.168.1.66 bedroom
192.168.1.64 kitchen
and such, till you're done on all the boxen

then do /etc/init.d/networking restart 
and now you can refer to your targets as 'kitchen' or 'bedroom' or whatnot.

scp *.jpg user at kitchen

Note that if the username you are logged into on the source computer is the 
same as your target's username it can be safely dropped, and it's implied.

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Thanks and best regards,
Ryan Rix
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On Wed October 22 2008 03:23:09 pm Josef Lowder wrote:
> On 10/22/08, enrique <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
> > Linux: Open up a terminal and type:
> >  ip addr show
> >  and choose the adapter that connects to the network you want.
> >
> >  use scp as:
> >  scp /file/to/copy user at machine:/copy/file/to
> >
> >  It's easy, even I can do it.
>
> Thanks Enrique ... but the problem is ... you are brilliant
> and I guess I just don't have all the wires connected.
>
> I did find that I have to use /sbin/ip addr show
> since 'ip' was not found.
>
> But below are the results I got from my two linux boxes,
> and I can't figure out which of all these different number
> sets is the 'ip' number for each machine.
>
> == from machine "A"
> $ /sbin/ip addr show
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>     inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:11:2f:06:65:08 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 192.168.1.64/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
>
> == from machine "B"
> $ /sbin/ip addr show
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>     inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:14:85:1e:5f:5e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 192.168.1.66/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
>
> Furthermore, from your excellent example (thank you very much),
> scp /file/to/copy user at machine:/copy/file/to
>
> I still do not understand how to put which numbers where,
> and how the actual syntax should look.  Is it like this:
>
>  scp /filenameA.txt/to/copy joe at 12.34.56:/copy/filenameB.txt/to
>
> How would scp know in what directory or folder to put the file
> to be copied?
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