Transfering files between two boxes.

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Hi,

What would be the most natural way of transfering files from a computer
with Win95 to a computer with WinXP? They are connected together with
ethernet.

I have a Unix/Linux background, so I would share files with NFS, but I
don't know whether NFS is present on WinXP. Which way would cost me the
least configuration pain?

TIA.
 
Irène said:
Hi,

What would be the most natural way of transfering files from a computer
with Win95 to a computer with WinXP? They are connected together with
ethernet.

I have a Unix/Linux background, so I would share files with NFS, but I
don't know whether NFS is present on WinXP. Which way would cost me the
least configuration pain?

TIA.
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With your Unix/Linux experience, should be easy. Not necessary to look
for or use NFS. Windows XP and 95 already have built-in capability
that's equivalent to NFS. Read the articles in "help" about "System
Admininstration" to learn about how to set up network shares and
granting permissions.

On the Win 95 machine, share the folders of interest, and grant
permissions to ID's on the XP machine to read the files. On the XP
machine, connect (like in "mount" on Linux/Unix) to those shares and copy.
 
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