[Madlug] Win-to-Linux: an easy way?

[John Heim]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Hagen" <bdhagen at jvlnet.com>
To: <madlug at madisonlinux.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:25 PM
Subject: [Madlug] Win-to-Linux: an easy way?


>I want to get a file-transfer connection set up between Windows and
> Linux boxes
> in my LAN. I can hear the response from some of you now: "Set up Samba".
> I don't
> have the time and/or effort available to do so as each Samba HOWTO I've
> read looks too
> daunting for my current skillset. They outline numerous suggestions for
> fullscale
> system access, and that is not what I have in mind. I have tried
> Filezilla, WS_FTP,
> Windows 98's builtin ftp program, and a host of other means; none of
> them work at all.
>
>    Is it /*really*/ that complicated? I don't want a full-fledged
> connectivity
> with highly secure factors and all that jazz. Just a way to get files
> transferred
> from the old Windows boxes so that I can convert them over to Linux 
> without
> using contents. Tech-Purists and other group "diehards": please spare me
> the vitriolic
> responses as I've heard them all before. I don't earn a living "doing
> tech" and so am
> quite humble about my own abilities. Anyone with genuinely constructive
> suggestions,
> please drop a line if you know of an easy way to do this ...


I'd like to put in a vote for sftpdrive. It's a commercial product but the 
30 day trial version may work for you. Sftpdrive allows you to map a Windows 
drive letter to a remote directory that's accessible via ssh. You have to 
have an ssh server running on the linux machine same as with winscp.   So 
your X: drive is actually your home folder on the linux drive. I like it 
because then I can use my favorite windows text editor on remote files just 
as if they were on my PC.