Re: Looking for the best way of sending a 50MB file

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On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 12:47 -0500, fredex wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 06:43:32PM +0200, peter kostov wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 16:08 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> > > Dear All
> > > 
> > > I need to send a 50MB file to someone. What is the simplest way of
> > > doing that? I do not have any web-site to put the file for
> > > downloading... Any ideas? Is it complicated to setup a secure ftp
> > > server?
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > 
> > > Paul
> 
> Or like the old saying goes: "Never understimate the bandwidth of
> a station wagon full of magnetic tapes!". So, my point is it might
> be easier to just mail a CDROm with the data on it.
> 
> Fred
> 
> > If you have OpenSSH installed, I think it will not be complicated. But
> > first read the man pages for ssh, sshd and ssh-keygen ('man ssh' and
> > 'man sshd' and 'man ssh-keygen').
> > On Fedora it is very likely that you have all this installed and
> > configured and you will have only to generate your keys.
> > After you have working configuration on both machines you will need just
> > a simple command like this: 
> > 
> > 
> > scp -P <portnumber> -C -i ./.ssh/id_rsa -r "username@hostname:path_to_remote_file_to_receive" path_to_local_file
> > to receive a file, where -P is the port on which sshd listens, -C is compression enabled, -i points to the identity file, 
> > -r means recursive;
> > 
> > scp -P <portnumber> -C -i ./.ssh/id_rsa -r path_to_local_file_to_send "username@IPaddress:path_to_remote_file"
> > 
> > 
> > Peter Kostov
> > > 
> > 
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Why don't you try using GAIM and use your IM system of choice to
transfer the file?

Charlie


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