pinecone wrote:
I have been struggling with this for days with mixed results. Can anyone suggest the steps for doing this in a simple way? I would be operating from a /home directory. The gui's supplied with gnome don't seem to offer this easily. I have been working with Synaptic and Ark. Take your pick! I am familiar with sources.list.
Hi pineconeCould you explain what a "harddrive file" is? There are various ways to get a file from other computers (connected through lan or internet). The choices that come to mind are http, ssh, scp, sftp etc.,
raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate Student, MAE Cornell University http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/