File Sharing 2 linux machines

[Clinton MacDonald]

Jim:

On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 05:23  PM, Jim wrote:
> I was wondering if I could get some help on this one. I own a Mac G3 
> and a Compaq i586. I am running Ydl 3.0 on the Mac and RedHat Linux 
> 8.0 on the Compaq. They are both on my home network, and I want to 
> share files between both of them,what will I have to do to get this to 
> work?

One way to do this is to turn on SSH (secure shell) for both machines 
using the SSH daemon (called sshd). Then you can type 
"sftp://username@remoteIPaddress" in the Konqueror browser address 
field (substituting your username and the actual IP address). This will 
allow you to browse, move, copy and delete files as if they were on 
your local machine. You can also accomplish these same results from the 
command line using ssh and sftp, but the command line can be clumsy (I 
can never spell complex paths accurately). There are probably other, 
more traditional networking ways to do this, but ssh/sftp have the 
advantage of being very secure.

Best wishes,
Clint

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