On Tuesday, November 29, 2011, Alex Mandel wrote: > On 11/29/2011 03:18 PM, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a windoze computer and linux box sitting next to each other on > > my desk. One is a government computer, locked-down and on a secured > > network, the other on a DSL connection to the internet. I can get the > > windows computer to talk to the linux box over the internet, but it is > > far too slow for most things. The windows computer does have a > > wireless card, that can connect to any access point. > > > > I can live with semi-slow SSH access, however, I have large files to > > move around. Are there any ways to connect these machines via USB for > > file-transfers? Any other ideas? > > > > Thanks! > > Dylan > > > What about a read/write samba share on the Linux box. If they are both > on the same access point the windows box would probably be able to see > it, you can even fake add the Linux box to the same domain and use the > same user in the samba config. > > Otherwise if the data isn't super sensitive - dropbox? webdav running on > the linux box? and last filezilla running on an usb stick on the windows > machine (if you can't install it). > > Enjoy, > Alex >
Yeah... the problem is that they are not on the same network, and can't really be on the same network per policy... unless I can get them both on a third, ad-hoc wireless network. Dylan _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech