Re: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop

[Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm>]

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 21:35, Naitik Shah wrote:
> Easiest would be to install ssh on your linux box, and use a SFTP client
> (many freely available) to connect to your linux box, and well, copy the
> files as if you're using ftp!
> 
> Can you get online from your laptop? I mean, can you ping anything else
> on the internet from your laptop? If not, the network configuration
> might not be working too well.
> 
> Naitik.
> 

I have both ProFTPD and WU-FTP installed on the desktop (along with Webmin), but have not
established my own FTP server before.  Could someone give a pointer as
to how to set this up to get the files from the laptop to the desktop?

Thanks.