SSH novice Slack 10 box and XP/Gentoo box

[Jammin1984]

Hello all.

I have just bought a 2nd hand lappy and installed slack 10. I have 9gB of tunes and about 1gB of *cough* pr0n *cough* i would like to transfer from my desktop to my lappy. On my desktop I'm dual booting XP Sp1 and Gentoo. All the files I wish to transfer are on an NTFS partion I do have a FAT32 partion which I use to move stuff from XP to Gentoo. Its 3gB.

Im a very much a networking novice.

I have a faint idea that I will need to:

1) Connect them with a crossover cable.

2)SSH from my lappy to my desktop whilst its in Gentoo.

3)Mount the drive of my desktop partion (The FAT32 one) on my slack lappy

4)cp the files.

But am rather puzzled by steps 2 and 3. Am im right in saying i need to, at root, type ssh <IPOfDesktop> then enter my pass for Gentoo? Also, im using the same static IP address for both Gentoo and Slack on my uni network so how would it differentiate between the two??

Also do i need to mount the FAT partion in slack or will i be able to access it straight away if its mounted in Gentoo??

I know i could just burn what i want to DVD and transfer that way but I would like to know how to do this and + i dont like wasting DVD`s.

Thanks much

Jammin

[sarumont]

Also, im using the same static IP address for both Gentoo and Slack on my uni network so how would it differentiate between the two??

How are you doing this? If they are connected with a crossover cable, then they are on their own LAN. Assign both boxen different IPs manually here (your uni IP doesn't matter with them off the network).

The easier to transfer these files would be to use a samba share whilst in Windows and use samba (smbmount) in Linux to copy it over. See http://www.samba.org.

[Jammin1984]

Thanks.

I dont have them on the uni network at the same time. I will read some samba docs.

Thanks much