Mac --> Linux file transfer

[Red10]

Hello guys,

Quick question; i have a large amount of music stored on my iBook G4, which i want to transfer over to my Fedora Core2 rig, what is the quickest way?.. I have googled and i have a rough idea, but i thought i would ask on here before i tried anything!


Cheers

Dan.

[Jonny M]

How large is large? Easist method is probably to set the iBook up as an FTP server, and download the MP3s from the Linux box.

[Red10]

4.5 Gb, not large relative to most music collections, in fact it´s pretty small, but i don´t have a DVD-R on my notebook

[directhex]

is the linux box running an ssh server (i.e. sshd)?

if so, obtain an scp client for the mac - scp transfers files over ssh, like ftp but secure, and doesn't require any configuration fiddling

[directhex]

it works in reverse too, i think macos runs sshd by default - in kde you can enter fish://ipaddress into knqueror to connect to a computer with scp

[Red10]

Sooo, connect the two via an ethernet cable,
fish://ipaddress (where ipaddress is the ip of the notebook?)

is it self explanatory after that? sorry guys i am not too hot on networking etc.

Cheers

Dan.

[directhex]

the two need to be properly configured for networking.

i assumed you had a router or something which makes everything justwork(tm)

[Red10]

Ha ha.. apologies directhex, i have them running through a d-link router, i for some reason didn´t think i could do that, or at least i didn´t think about doing that... Like i say, i am a noob to this stuff..

I have pinged the laptop on the network, it´s ok, the connection is live, so what do i need to do now?

[directhex]

check that an ssh server is running on one machine (open a terminal, type "pgrep sshd", get a number back for yes or nothing for no). that machine is the server. if the client is the linux box, then type fish://ipaddress/ into konqueror. if the client is the mac, you'll need to find an scp utility on the net somewhere as i don't think it comes with one.

[Red10]

pgrep gives me a number, so my linux box is the server...
i have downloaded a client for the Mac, i need to find the IP address of the Linux rig, how do i do this? in Windows it was ipconfig, wasn´t it? this doesn´t work in nix..

[directhex]

linux has ifconfig for wired connections, iwconfig for wireless.

[Red10]

bizzare! ifconfig returns a command not found? sorry about this!

[pritsey]

Ok, I reckon that the easiest way is to use the iBook as the ftp server. OS X has ftp and Apache servers built into the OS. To set it up, do the following steps:

1 - click on 'System Preferences'
2 - click on 'Sharing' which is on the Internet & Network part of system prefs
3 - should now see the services options, click on ftp access, then click the start button

You're done!

Now all you would do is go to your Linux box, open an FTP client, and type the IP address of the iBook. Enter your user name and password (the Mac ones) and you can browse the whole iBook hard drive.

This way means no need to find out IP of linux box if you're not sure, it's easy peasy on the Mac!

[directhex]

regular users can't run ifconfig, only root.

[Red10]

Yeah, directhex i´m not THAT daft i dunno, doesn´t work, but never mind..

[ikonia]

ftp, samba, ftp, nfs, to name but a few