[SLUG] Copying files from one machine to another

[Jamie Adams]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:17:16AM -0500, john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
> >> I had tried, previously, to get NFS to work, but didn't manage that
> >> either, but I think I'll have a wander through that again now, since
> >> I've re-installed FC4.
> >
> > So, NFS, according to the RH9 GUI list of services, NFS is ticked so
> > it should be up and running, I've added the share to /etc/exports,
> > I've exportfs'd it, and then on the FC4 machine, I try to mount it
> > (mount 192.168.0.69:/home/j /home/J/j) and it says, after a ponder,
> > mount to NFS server (IP) failed, server is down.
> >
> > So I'm all washed up and need a hint.
> 

I can't help you with your NFS problem, but I copy files between my
machines using sftp or scp which comes as part of the ssh client package. Even
though my network is firewalled I prefer using encrypted communications
where I can.

All you need is an ssh server on the host machines. It's pretty easy to
setup, all you need is port 22 open.

Jam
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