Crossover cable connection between 2 computers.

[Dotan Cohen]

> I have a crossover cable.  I would like to transfer data from one
> computer to another using the cable.  After the computers are connected,
> what type of application will assist the transfer.  I have been unable
> to get Samba or fish to work.  But I do have a crossover cable and would
> like to try that.  TIA.
>

Steven, you need to physically connect the machines (you have a
crossover cable, that's enough), then set up a network between the
machines (DHCP will assign addresses to each machine), then set up a
server on one machine and a client on the other. You then connect to
the server with the client, and transfer the files based upon the
protocol of the server (samba and ftp seem poppular for this purpose,
but you could use scp over SSH as well).

Does that sound complicated? I think that it is a bit more complicated
than it has to be. I do not know of any application that will make it
any easier, but I will start filing RFEs to make this easier. In the
meantime, those steps are what you need to do. Sorry.

If anyone knows of an application that makes this easier than I've
described, please mention it. Even non-Linux applications would
interest me as I might be able to learn something from them and
implement it on Linux (not the actual application, but the idea).

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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