How to connect laptops having windows xp and opensuse 11.0?

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I need to connect my system which is having openSUSE 11.0 to a laptop having windows XP… How can I do this??? Any tutorial is available???

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set up ssh on your suse - I use a password as well in the setup
Public Key Authentication - openSUSE

Install filezilla on xp machine

you should be able to login to suse and move files either way.

you need your login details to enter in filezilla

eg;
sftp://yourusername@192.168.1.100/home
password

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I’m confused… any tutorial available on setting up ssh???

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Not much to do really. Just make sure sshd is enabled: Yast- System- System Services (runlevel)
Go to expert mode
sshd - make sure box 3 and 5 are x
Use the link above to setup security and login

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I do not understand, what kind of connection? I have always used samba to connect windows and linux computers together if I wanted to share files. Samba – Opening Windows to a Wider World has plenty of docs and tutorials. I use 10.3, but I transfer files back and forth all the time, and it works great, along with all kinds of great options.

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If both PCs are connected to the same LAN, then simply open up your winXP firewall to allow the IP address of your openSUSE-11.0 PC to have access to the winXP PC. That means file sharing enabled on winXP PC.

Then if using KDE, simply start konqueror file manager and in the location bar of konqueror file manager type:
smb://you-ip-win-xp-pcs-file address

ie on my LAN to access my wife’s winXP PC, I would type:
smb://192.168.2.108
your lan will have a different IP

I can’t recall if the user name is needed. If it is, then one types in the user name of the WinXP user … ie …

smb://oldcpus-wife@192.168.2.108

But I don’t think user name is necessary (winXP is weak that way in security).