Oh no, mansaxel said Win95 has everything that's needed out of the box... how do I do then ?
As I wrote earlier, yes, that is true. But you have to put on your 90s head to do it.
On the Linux box, install or enable a FTP server. (google "enable ftp server ubuntu" or whatever distribution you have) Make a note ("ifconfig") about the IP address of that box.
On the windows box, open a DOS prompt, and start going back in time:
c:\> cd c:/vince/gpib/dumps/ <- where you put the file
c:\> ftp 192.0.2.44 <- swap in IP address of your Linux box (that address is a RFC 5737 example address)
Login with your user and password of the Linux machine.
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Thanks !
I just tried that, works just fine !
Was indeed not that difficult, thanks to your instructions !
I googled a bit, looked like " vsftpd " was a popular FTP server on Linux, so I installed that.
I failed to connect to the old Windows machine though... maybe because W2K doesn't enable the FTP server by default, maybe I need to click somewhere to enable it...
However the client was already installed and I could "ftp" to my Linux from the command line just fine ! ![ThumbsUp :-+](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/icon_smile_thumbsup.gif)
I could see my Home directory, I created a new directory in there, then copied a file into that directory. So easy indeed !
I like this stuff a lot, really cool ! ![Cool 8)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/cool.gif)
So my future local network might not be that hard to make then, after all ! ![Cheesy :D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
EDIT : found this web site that explains how to enable the FTP server on W2K..
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/get-it-done-setting-up-an-ftp-server-with-windows-2000/
it was indeed not enabled by default. Followed the instructions to create an FTP "site" as W2K calls it... appears to work, locally at least, if I type " ftp://localhost " in the file explorer, W2K can see itself. It also shows there, that the server is set to "anonymous".
So then I moved to my Linux box and try to connect to W2K. See screenshot... the Linux box, using the IP address of the W2K box, can "connect", I mean it can identify the machine, because it prints its name, and knows it's a Microsoft FTP server... so that's good. I know they can talk to each other. However despite being set to anonymous, I am still being asked for a password... I type it anyway ( "admin" ...), but it fails to login with that, crap.... I tried giving no password at all, since it's supposed to be anonymous, but still doesn't work.
Oh well..... I will call the customer support ! ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif)
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Suddenly the good old days don't seem to be as good as we remembered them to be, eh?
What do you mean ?
I have no "old days" of FTP, never used it.
All I see if that in just 5 minutes and a few instructions fro Mansaxel, I managed to achieve cool stuff starting from dead zero knowledge.
It's the best IT bang for buck I have had in the last 20+ years of computing, I am to the contrary extremely happy with the outcome, and am now asking for more.
I dreaded the moment where I would have to computerize my lab and make a local network including the ADSL box and hopefully a NAS thing for backup... am now not so scared anymore, looks like I might be able to manage something, and it excites me no end...