Best Way To Transfer Files To The Z Over A Netwok Options

[Capn_Fish]

I have an Ubuntu box with no monitor that control with VNC with my Zaurus. I would like to be able to easily transfer files from there to my Z in a secure manner. What would be the best way of doing this?

Thanks.

[daniel3000]

The most convenient way is IMHO to use Samba directory sharing.

daniel

[dsteuer]

I have an Ubuntu box with no monitor that control with VNC with my Zaurus. I would like to be able to easily transfer files from there to my Z in a secure manner. What would be the best way of doing this?

Thanks.

My tool of choice is rsync + ssh. Works like a charm and no need to mount.

(Btw: Are there fuse and sshfs for the Z?)

[Capn_Fish]

Any good how-tos for ssh & rsync? Or can you provide one?

Thanks!

EDIT: I've tried to set up Samba in the past, and it seems to be difficult (or I was just being stupid), so I'm not really looking at that.

EDIT2: How does using rsync and ssh work?

This post has been edited by Capn_Fish: Feb 14 2007, 06:35 AM

[rolf]

(Btw: Are there fuse and sshfs for the Z?)

yes, I used it just recently on OpenZaurus. To mount connections on the Z should just work OOTB IIRC. To mount your Z on another box you need to "enhance" dropbear with the openssh-sftp package.

[speculatrix]

"ipkg install rsync"

then on desktop

rsync -r -v -z /dir/dir/ 192.168.129.201:/dir2/dir2

stick in a "-n" to not actually do the copy beforehand just to make sure nothing's going to go wrong.

"man rsync" or "rsync --help" is your friend.

[Da_Blitz]

whats the diffrence apart from only uploading the changes to using rsync over scp or sftp in this type of enviroment. we are talking about high bandwidth links here so there is really no need to upload changes, a dumb copy would be fine

or am i missing somthing here

[desertrat]

I have an Ubuntu box with no monitor that control with VNC with my Zaurus. I would like to be able to easily transfer files from there to my Z in a secure manner. What would be the best way of doing this?

Use ssh, and if you use KDE it's as simple as typing:

CODE

sftp://username@ip.address.of.zaurus/

into konqueror to browse your Z filesystem.

[Capn_Fish]

What do I need to set up on Ubuntu? I set up the /etc/rsyncd.conf.

[speculatrix]

What do I need to set up on Ubuntu? I set up the /etc/rsyncd.conf.

you don't need to set anything up on the PC side... ok, quick tutorial. rsync is a bit like "scp -prd", only it's a lot more intelligent - it can be told to ignore existing files (by checking size and date or using a checksum /slower/)

When invoked, it talks to rsync on the remote host either because the remote host is running rsync as a daemon OR by ssh'ing to it and running it.

So, on the ubuntu side, no need to run rsync as daemon. So long as when you ssh into zaurus rsync is in the path it will work. Or vice versa. Generally rsync is in /bin or /usr/bin and is virtually guaranteed to work.

So, use the "-n" /dryrun/ option just to be sure.

rsync has a HUGE number of options but they are fairly clearly explained.

[Meanie]

personally, i think scp is the easiest and most secure.

[speculatrix]

personally, i think scp is the easiest and most secure.

er, rsync uses ssh as the default connection channel, so it's as secure as scp but more powerful.

you can use rsync as a daemon. you could also do rsync over plain telnet. both would be unencrypted.

you can also use tar, e.g. use compression to copy a directory from one machine to another using an ssh secure channel

CODE

cd /mydir; tar cf - . | gzip | ssh otherhost "cd /newdir; gunzip | tar xf -"

the advantages of tar and rsync is they understand symlinks better, tar also preserves ownership and protection but doesn't know not to copy an existing file.


--edit--
oops, I forgot the gunzip on the target, added explanatory comment

[Capn_Fish]

To be honest, I don't need power or the ability to preserve symlinks. All I want is the ability to simply copy one file over a LAN from Ubuntu to my Z with minimal set-up time.

Is SCP or RSync easier to set up for this?

[InSearchOf]

To be honest, I don't need power or the ability to preserve symlinks. All I want is the ability to simply copy one file over a LAN from Ubuntu to my Z with minimal set-up time.

Is SCP or RSync easier to set up for this?

scp... just

CODE

scp youfile root@host:/where you want it

example... scp test.txt root@192.168.1.45:/home/root/

or scp test.txt 192.168.1.45:

if you want to just copy that file, you are already an equal user name to the one on the destination, and you want it just to go to the users home dir.

Late

[Capn_Fish]

I've got an ssh connection working as well as scp. I'm now trying to figure out how to block all attempts to ssh into my Ubuntu box except from my Zaurus. All of the documentation I've found seems to be a bit vague, but it seems to indicate that all that is involved is moving some authentication keys around. What exactly do I need to do (starting from getting the connection working)? If it's too much to explain, could you point me to some good documentation?

Thanks!