topic Re: move files in Operating System - Linux

move files

hangyu — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:41:26 GMT

I want to move files from Linux to windows regularly , is there any tools / application ( perferably it is a free software ) that I can install at windows side to do it ? thx

Re: move files

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:00:04 GMT

Several tools all free.

The windows sharing filesystem is based on CIFS, which is what Samba is based on.

Samba is build into the Linux operating system.

You set up shares in the smb.conf file, then:

service smb start or restart

and you have shares that linx can mount.

cifsclient or smbclient that is build into to linux can connect to windows shares.

You don't actually need to install anything since Samba is default on most Linux distribution install programs.

SEP

Re: move files

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:46:44 GMT

there were *many* bugs in RHEL's kswapd (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kswapd+rhel+bug).
I suggest you to upgrade to current RHEL3 upd 5

Rgds,
Vitaly

Re: move files

Rajesh SB — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:56:03 GMT

Hi,

Samba server on Linux helps you to share the file system to Windows. So, on windows you can map and get the files to be moved.

OR.

You can mount the Windows Share on to the Linux and keep coping the files to the mounted directory.
Here is the syntax for mounting the windows share on the linux:

# mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test /data/test

OR

If you go for RFTP helps to GUI Based drag and drop feature using ftp service.

Regards,
Rajesh

Re: move files

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:09:22 GMT

You should know that there is a limit of 2 GB when you copy a file (greater then 2 GB) from an Ext3 file sytem to a mounted smb share with smbmount.

I don't the kernel version (if any) that supports more than 2GB file sizes for smbfs.

Re: move files

hangyu — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:33:49 GMT

thx all replies ,

But except samba , is there any other tools can do it ? thx

Re: move files

Muthukumar_5 — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:48:56 GMT

If you would like to use ftp then install ftp server in your windows. Automate file transfer from linux to windows machine like,

ftp -n -i <<-EOF
user
cd
lcd
bin
mput *
bye
EOF

hth.

Re: move files

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:19:50 GMT

You can use NFS for windows - there few products , include MS Windows for UNIX services

Re: move files

Eknath — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:42:57 GMT

Hi,

There are several ftp utilities available. Whcih are free on net. Some utilities allows you to schedule the file transfer...

Try cuteftp or bulletftp etc...

Cheers!!!
eknath

Re: move files

hangyu — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:29:28 GMT

Except ftp , samba , is there other method can transfer file from ux to windows , is there any tools that support rcp file to windows ? thx

Re: move files

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:48:46 GMT

there are a lot of rcp/scp utils for MS Windows - you may google for this.
BTW, MS Services for UNIX provides such utils too.

Re: move files

Stuart Browne — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:05:57 GMT

scp, ftp, samba, http, nfs.. they are the major's.. If you want more obscure, you've also got tftp.

As you're moving from Linux to Windows, you'd need some kind of service listening on the windows box, for all apart from 'smbclient' (and associated 'smbfs' tools) from the samba package set.

If you've got IIS on your windows box, then you've got 'ftp' available, or HTTP with the appropraite backend script.

Take your pick, and try one. There are plenty of NFS servers and clients about. If you're willing to put 'cygwin' on your windows machine, SSH isn't out of the equasion either (or one of the dedicated services like http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/ ).

Re: move files

Tvs — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:30:09 GMT

hi
configure samba, make the windows and linux system in a same workgroup

from windows map linux system partion .

and then you can move th files or if you want to scheduled this you can use windows schedulder services