Sharing files?

[colonelpaper]

Hey, me and my friend are trying to share files from computer to computer without using email. People say that telnet works, but after I know their ip address what do I do from there?

[genesus]

ok, get sshd running, its a secure form of telnet, you can get it through apt, or check /etc/init.d and see if its already there, if it is then go to /etc/ssh/sshd_config and edit your configfile, when you are satisfied run /etc/init.d/sshd start. This will start the sshd service, then a friend would just have to ssh to your ip address from the command line or use a graphical ssh client pointed to your ip...make sure you give him a user account. If you use a router you will have to set up port forwarding. If you want to do this via ftp, you can run an ftp server such as vsftpd, set up in much the same way. If you want to share between windows and linux then you will have to consider samba. Browse the servers section of these forums for more insight...good luck, its always nice to be able to connect to your pc from anywere. Ftp allows the sharing of files, while ssh/telnet allows you to actually remote log to the system and execute commands...

[spoon!]

ssh is almost certainly running on most Linux machines; and is the best way to connect between computers. You can use the "sftp" or "scp" programs to transfer files over SSH.