How to transfer files between computers on a network

[Ryan Rix]

Hi,

Eekers, thanks for the catch :) /me is used to writing to actual dir's after 
so just assumed it would right to ~ in that case.


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Thanks and best regards,
Ryan Rix
TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog

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making love to you might drive me crazy




On Wed October 22 2008 04:16:47 pm kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:
> This is true but,
> Just a note:
>
> scp *.jpg user at kitchen
>
> Will copy all the files ending in .jpg to a directory named user at kitchen in
> THIS machine, if it exists, or it will abort with an error.
>
> If you want to remote-copy, it has to have a colon :
>
> scp *.jpg user at kitchen:
> or
> scp *.jpg user at kitchen:~
> ET
>
> PS: been bitten with that one before...
>
> Ryan Rix writes:
> >>     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.
> >
> > --
> > Thanks and best regards,
> > Ryan Rix
> > TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog
> >
> > My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain: IBM
> >
> > 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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