[PLUG] Needed: Modern equivalent of a "null-modem cable"

[Chuck Hast]

Yes SSH and SCP are your friends...

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 9:04 PM, Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> I too have been watching this, I used to service machines that were
> designed
> back in the late 90's they had updated the HIM's from 95 and NT to WinXP,
> I always carried a linux box as my laptop, the quick solution was jump
> drives
> forever and ever.
>
> Yes I have set up two machines to talk to one another over the Cat5/6
> cable,
> but using a jump drive is so much easier, even when the functionality had
> been
> turned off in the BIOS, reboot and turn it back on.
>
> In the time you have spent trying to sort this out you could have
> purchased a
> jump drive at the local truck stop (with a nude girl on it too boot) and
> got it done.
>
> You can do what you want to do over Ethernet, but you will need to hit the
> key-
> board a bit and set some things, up, with the jump drive it should just
> work...
>
> Now if you want a running link between the two machines then you will want
> to
> setup the networked connection between the two. Again, I keep a few older
> routers around and I use one of these for that sort of thing it hands out
> IPs
> to the machines in question, then depending on what is on each machine I
> use whatever I have at hand to push and pull files from one to the other.
> If you
> are using wired connections you will just need to look at assignment to
> each
> NIC to see what is going on, or link to your router web page and look at
> what
> it shows on the client list.
>
> In your case the jump drive thing would take me about 30 seconds to get the
> drive recognized (max even on a low WinXP system) and then the time to put
> or pull the file off of the jump drive. Linux will recognize a jump drive
> in less
> than a second (on my machines at least) and push pull files off quite fast.
>
> Going to the Ethernet with a router, plug machines into router power up
> router
> power up machines and take a look see at what IP addy's they get, then you
> can probably use the Linux machine to go in and look at the WinXP machine
> with very little fiddling. Going the other way is a bit slower, but not
> that big a
> deal.
>
> I think that you are making it too complex, but maybe I am missing
> something.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 7:16 PM, <brooks at netgate.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> > Don't need and FTP server if you use ssh and scp.  Windows has putty for
>> > ssh and other ssh commands.
>>
>> It's still complicated :-).
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>
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Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better.
The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on.