On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 10:11:32AM +0000, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 06:28:05 +0100 > <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 03:21:16PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: [...] > He has not even said whether this transfer is to be across the > Internet. SMB/CIFS has been encrypted for many years, but it is still > not considered an appropriate thing to open a network firewall to. > It If you ask me, I'd recommend against running Windows at all, but hey ;-) > may be possible to reach it through some variant of https, I've been > out of the Windows Server business for many years, and have no idea > what they're using it for today. I think they do (a disfigured version of ) WebDAV, so, yes, basically HTTP(S). > > Otherwise, Hans, Windows comes these days with an SSH client, so > > trying, from a Windows console, to do "scp" might fit your bill. > > > > > Yes, but I suspect it needs to be enabled, maybe with 'add features to > Windows' or similar. I have the impression he has no admin access to > the Windows machine. He also says that the transfer must be initiated > from Linux. No, not the client. But the server. That's how I transfer stuff between my BYOD Linux box and the (corporate overlords) Windows box. But I have to sit at the Windows console. Starting an SSH *server* on the windows side, OTOH... I never tried that one (and hope this one stint to be sufficiently short lived that I haven't to try). > I don't think what he wants is possible, particularly if required across > the Net. This is exactly the kind of thing that IT security policies > exist to prevent. We don't yet know exactly what he wants. So I'll stop guessing here until he finds the time to chime in :-) Cheers -- tomás
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