Sending files to Windows from Linux

[Nomthie]

Hi

I am trying to send files to a Windows server from Linux on command for I'll need to create a script that will be scheduled in cron to do this.
Please help.

[Roxoff]

You have a number of ways to do this, check some of them out:

- Email is probably the easiest, if you email the file to the windows user, then the file will be on the windows pc without needing any special tools.

- Samba can be used to mount windows shares, look into adding a line to your /etc/fstab file to declare the remote filesyste, mount it with the 'mount' command, then copy the file over with 'cp'.

- You can use secure shell - there are ssh servers for windows, if you set up access using public/private key pairs, then you can just use 'scp' to copy any file to the remote windows machine.

- You could set up an ftp server on the windows machine, then ftp the file over.

- You could even write the file to a floppy disk and physically move the disk to the other machine.

[Nomthie]

Thanks for responding.
I am trying the SSH Server option. I have just installed the SSH server on Windows and have tried to make changes to the passwd file as advised. Please see below. If this is right, then what do I need to do next?

Passwd file:
Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-NB-BAFANAM\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1004336348-1606980848-839522115-500: */cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/nomthie.dumisa/Administrator:/bin/switch

[Oxygen]

I'd say that samba would be the easiest way to do it.

You'll need smbfs, which you can get and read about here: Linux Enhanced SMBFS

Download that tarball and make then make install it.

Make the folder you want to mount it on:
mkdir /mnt/server

Also you'll need to place credentials for connecting to the server in a file. Use nano and type the following:

username=<windows username>
password=<windows password>

Save that as something like /etc/.wincred and chmod it so only you can read it:

chmod 600 /etc/.wincred

Add this line to /etc/fstab
//server/share /mnt/server smbfs credentials=/etc/.wincred,defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46,dmask= 777,fmask=777,rw 0 0

And you'll be sorted! Move files with the 'mv' command like 'mv /home/user/file /mnt/server/sharelocation

Any questions?