noob asking about file transfer between opensuses

dredsuse · June 21, 2011, 12:50pm

hi

i’m a very long time opensuse user (from suse 9.0)

i have two opensuse machine in the university network, both running 11.4,

i want to transfer some big files from one machine to another,

how can i do that?
my firsy instinct was to install giver on both machine, but nothing shows up on both machine?

thanks in advance

nrickert · June 21, 2011, 1:13pm

I don’t know anything about “giver” (except for the web page I found in a google search). Perhaps you are having a firewall problem.

I normally use ssh (scp or rsync commands) for transferring files between machines. But that also requires firewall settings and runlevel services settings.

caf4926 · June 21, 2011, 1:25pm

ssh here

OpenSSH - openSUSE

vodoo · June 21, 2011, 1:31pm

i want to transfer some big files from one machine to another, how can i do that?

The command line is your friend:

scp <name-of-some-big-file> [email]vodoo@<otherhost.dom.tld[/email]>:<new-filename-on-target-host>

or:

rsync -av /home/vodoo/pastebin/  [email]vodoo@<otherhost.dom.tld[/email]>:/home/vodoo/pastebin

(to copy/sync everything in my ~/patebin/ directory to the other host).

Recommended reading:

man scp

man rsync

martin_helm · June 21, 2011, 1:35pm

What about simply using ssh?
scp for copy from a terminal or fish:// in dolphin (nautilus has an option
also for connecting via ssh to another machine).

dredsuse · June 21, 2011, 1:44pm

thanks guy

indeed i was thinking about SSH, but at the risk of sounding stupid, how do i get the address of the machines.

when i disable susefirewall on one machine i could see only windows machines in smb://

hcvv · June 21, 2011, 2:45pm

You see the IP addresses a system has active with

ifconfig -a

But don’t they have names (either defined in a DNS server or in /etc/hosts?

caf4926 · June 21, 2011, 4:03pm

All machines on my network have static LAN IP’s
And you should know the name (username of them)

hcvv · June 21, 2011, 4:16pm

And, for the record, we are not talking about SAMBA (I say this because you talk about smb:// or so). This is about the TCP/IP network and it’s IP addresses and the hostnames behind those addresses (and the usernames on those hosts).