> 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@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 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@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: 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: 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: 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: 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@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@12.34.56:/copy/filenameB.txt/to > > How would scp know in what directory or folder to put the file > to be copied? > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss