Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-28 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/28/2016 12:57 PM, Rick Lair wrote: > Now that I have the SSD with Wheezy on it, in my office, I hooked it up > ,and have been messing around with it to see what I could find. What I > know is that, when I transferred all of the files onto this new SSD, > everything "had" read/write/execute st

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-28 Thread Rick Lair
I had to pull the SSD that has wheezy on it, and put them back onto the Ubuntu system, due to the problems with moving files around between PC's ( the reason for this topic to begin with). Friday, the supervisor tried to copy a file out of the machine, back to his PC to look at the edits that w

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-28 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 25.03.16 11:16, Jon Elson wrote: > On 03/25/2016 09:28 AM, Jerry Scharf wrote: > > No one mentioned my favorite way, so I will just throw it out there. rsync > > is a very good way to keep directory trees synced. > Yes, my system is to use ssh and sftp to move files around, > I do keep .ngc fi

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-25 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/25/2016 09:28 AM, Jerry Scharf wrote: > Hi, > > No one mentioned my favorite way, so I will just throw it out there. rsync > is a very good way to keep directory trees synced. Yes, my system is to use ssh and sftp to move files around, I do keep .ngc files on the machines (I only have 2 CNC

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-25 Thread Jerry Scharf
Hi, No one mentioned my favorite way, so I will just throw it out there. rsync is a very good way to keep directory trees synced. It's very smart in deciding which files to move over and can deal with failed transfers. rsync is good with push or pull. The trick to make it smooth is to create an a

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-25 Thread John Thornton
I've used clonezilla to create a disk image to copy to another hard drive is this how you create the disk image? How do you make a machine boot to a specific disk image? JT On 3/25/2016 1:45 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: > There are many schemes that work. One of my favorites is to not store any

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-24 Thread Chris Albertson
There are many schemes that work. One of my favorites is to not store any data at all on the client machines. One benefit is that you never have to do a backup of a client machine and if one fails it is trivial to replace it quickly. You never copy files so the OP's problem never happens. What

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-24 Thread TJoseph Powderly
i wonder too i got wifi sd cards from cameras to work for fujix picture xfers this eliminated one nonstandard tiny usb cable (which doesnt fit other tiny nonstandard usb sockets) tomp On 03/25/2016 02:53 AM, Rick Lair wrote: > I don't know, now you have me wondering, > > We do have some WiFi thum

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-24 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/24/2016 01:22 PM, Rick Lair wrote: > Even though all the machines have USB ports, thumb drives are just too > easily lost, damaged, dropped in chip conveyors, etc,,, > > We have a few OEM controls in here that we have to use a USB on, and I > have tried like hell to get them to tell me how to

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-24 Thread Charles Buckley
For LinuxCNC, I just wrote a small script to convert the files into a .deb package, then push it to my repo. Charles Buckley On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Jack Coats wrote: > Rather than hardware or sending information 'offsite' to Dropbox or > similar, I was wondering if something like bitt

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-24 Thread Jack Coats
Rather than hardware or sending information 'offsite' to Dropbox or similar, I was wondering if something like bittorrent sync could be used? It can probably run under LinuxCNC, but I haven't checked. https://www.getsync.com/ It does support Windows, Mac, Linux and Linux on ARM, FreeBSD, Apple an

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-24 Thread Rick Lair
I don't know, now you have me wondering, We do have some WiFi thumb drives, might have to play with that when they get off of the machine. Rick On 3/24/2016 2:48 PM, Stephen Dubovsky wrote: > Rick, would one of those USB flash drives w/ built in wifi work? (Sandisk > makes one, Im sure there

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-24 Thread Stephen Dubovsky
Rick, would one of those USB flash drives w/ built in wifi work? (Sandisk makes one, Im sure there are others.) The machine would see the USB flash drive and you could drop files on it from another machine via the wifi? SMD On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Rick Lair wrote: > Even though all th

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-24 Thread Rick Lair
Even though all the machines have USB ports, thumb drives are just too easily lost, damaged, dropped in chip conveyors, etc,,, We have a few OEM controls in here that we have to use a USB on, and I have tried like hell to get them to tell me how to network them, with no luck. Rick On 03/24

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 March 2016 12:53:07 Craig Warnol wrote: > Not an answer to your permissions issue, but here is my solution for > copying G code between PCs. > > I set up an ownCloud (https://owncloud.org/) instance on my > server/primary desktop/workstation and run the client on my other > machines

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-24 Thread Rick Lair
Hey Guys, I just looked at the permissions of the programs in the wheezy machine, and here is a screenshot of what they look like using he "ls -al" command, https://app.box.com/s/hzn5v96nrieg37fxg8h3ygxh4abypohy I would say they are Windows Shares As for the system, the only thing I really

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-24 Thread Bengt Sjölund
Why not just use a memory stick? Cheers Bengt Den 2016-03-24 kl. 17:53, skrev Craig Warnol: > Not an answer to your permissions issue, but here is my solution for > copying G code between PCs. > > I set up an ownCloud (https://owncloud.org/) instance on my > server/primary desktop/workstation and

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-24 Thread Craig Warnol
Not an answer to your permissions issue, but here is my solution for copying G code between PCs. I set up an ownCloud (https://owncloud.org/) instance on my server/primary desktop/workstation and run the client on my other machines. There is a CNC directory that is automatically synchronized a

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-23 Thread Chris Albertson
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Rick Lair wrote: > > Any thoughts as to what I may need to do, to allow us to copy back and > forth with out permission problems? > There is a lot that has to be done correctly or at least the same way on each computer. There are some arbitrary choices that ne

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 March 2016 15:22:28 Rick Lair wrote: > Hello All, > > We now have our second wheezy based machine running in our shop, with > 2 Ubuntu machines still kicking around as well. I have all of the > machines connected to our network, that way all of the programming in > the office can b

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-23 Thread Fernand Veilleux
I like Dropbox for transfering files from home, office and mill computer. So easy to use Fernand Le 23/03/16 15:34, John Thornton a écrit : > That and a bunch of other reasons is why I use LinuxMint with the Mate > desktop. Everything just works, where as Debian fights you tooth and > nail all t

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-23 Thread John Thornton
That and a bunch of other reasons is why I use LinuxMint with the Mate desktop. Everything just works, where as Debian fights you tooth and nail all the way with silly permissions and confusing log in screens and and and... JT On 3/23/2016 2:22 PM, Rick Lair wrote: > Hello All, > > We now have

Re: [Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-23 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> Hello All, > > We now have our second wheezy based machine running in our shop, with 2 > Ubuntu machines still kicking around as well. I have all of the machines > connected to our network, that way all of the programming in the office > can be dropped directly in the respective nc_files fold

[Emc-users] Copying G code files from PC to PC

2016-03-23 Thread Rick Lair
Hello All, We now have our second wheezy based machine running in our shop, with 2 Ubuntu machines still kicking around as well. I have all of the machines connected to our network, that way all of the programming in the office can be dropped directly in the respective nc_files folder on whatev