move files

[hangyu]

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

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

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

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

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

[Rajesh SB]

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

[Ivan Ferreira]

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.

[hangyu]

thx all replies ,

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

[Muthukumar_5]

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.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

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

[Eknath]

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

[hangyu]

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

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

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.

[Stuart Browne]

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/ ).

[Tvs]

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