On Wednesday 10 December 2003 01:21, you wrote:
>  I have no trouble connecting.  I connect the "standard" way to my wife's
> Windows box:
> mount -t smbfs //joyousguard/m /mnt/m -o username=XXXXXXXX,password=YyyYY

I was just thinking that there might have been a problem with the mount, and 
that smbclient, being simpler, might bypass that.

> Just for "fun" I installed CoreFTP Lite on my laptop, which is a free ftp
> program for Windows machines.  It also does file transfers thru SSH.  So I
> connected using it to my computer at home.  I transferred one 125 byte text
> file from my home machine just fine.  I then tried a 1.03 MB zip file.
> After a LONG time, it started to get a transfer rate of 0.3KB/sec.  My DSL
> has an upload cap of 256 kbps which would translate into 25-30 KBps.  Any
> idea on why the huge slowdown?  I don't think the SSH would add that much
> to the equation.
> Dart
>

I don't think SSH should be the problem because I use scp for transfers 
between my Linux machines and the performance is excellent.  There was one 
machine that inexplicably took about a minute to connect.  After I fixed some 
network parameters that problem went away.

I assume your router worked OK for Windows-to-Windows transfers?

Vaughn

>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Date: 12/09/2003 09:25:33 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: transferring files
>
> For communications to MS systems, I use the "smbclient" command-line
> program
>
> which seems to come with every Linux distro and hopefully has gotten
> installed by default on your system. The syntax is:
> smbclient //compname/x -U user
> where "compname" is the name of the Windows system, x is the drive letter
> and
> user is the user login. At this point it prompts you for the password. Once
> you're in, you can do a "?" for commands, which are pretty similar to those
> in ftp. The main transfer commands are "put" and "get." It does the trick
> for me.
>
> Vaughn
>
> On Tuesday 09 December 2003 20:17, you wrote:
> > I recently installed Lindows 4.5 on my computer and have been having
> > problems transferring files.
> > I tried to copy some pictures over from my computer to my wife's Win2K
> > computer. I mapped her shared drive without a problem, can read the files
> > on her hard drive, but when I try to copy files to her hard drive, the
> > process hangs. It doesn't error out, it just hangs. I am doing this all
> > as root and I have the proper username & password plugged in for her
> > computer. The same thing happens when I try to ftp a file from my
> > computer to a server on the Internet. Currently I'm at work and I'm
> > ssh'ed into my home computer When I try to ftp to an Internet server, it
> > just hangs. No errors are generated--it just stops. I have to Ctrl-Z to
> > get out of it. Any ideas?
> > Tia
> > Dart
>
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