RE: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monique Y. Herman [mailto:spam@bounceswoosh.org]
> Sent: Friday, 10 October 2003 12:11 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 01:35 GMT, Naitik Shah penned:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Two things:
>
> One, ssh adds encryption overhead (I believe), so it will be
> slower than a non-encrypted transfer (am I wrong here?)
>
> Two, a friend sucked down a bunch of large files from my
> machine using SFTP, then scp, and deemed scp much faster.
>
> --
> monique
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>
Both are pretty slow imo, but winscp<->ssh is a very easy and workable
solution which has help me many times.
http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/
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