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CentralMass

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1. It has been awhile but I used have a desktop PC setup as a server running Debian Linux.

Reply to Hokie (Original post)

Mon Feb 17, 2025, 07:30 AM

Feb 2025

I installed Samba on it and created Samba shares. This was some years back. We had gotten our daughters some inexpensive laptops when hard drive were not that large. I gave everyone a Samba drive on the server that had two beefy hard drives.
From windows we could just access them like a local drive.

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Really Microsoft? This is the best you can do with FTP servers in Windows? [View all] Hokie Feb 2025 OP

It has been awhile but I used have a desktop PC setup as a server running Debian Linux. CentralMass Feb 2025 #1

Samba works Hokie Feb 2025 #4

It's the ftp protocol causing your problem justaprogressive Feb 2025 #2

I don't see data communication in settings Hokie Feb 2025 #3

How to transfer files from Linux to Windows: The SMB network file-sharing protocol CentralMass Feb 2025 #5

I cannot use Samba in this case Hokie Feb 2025 #6

Does it allow SFTP (over SSH) or is that not helpful ? CentralMass Feb 2025 #7

Yes, they do allow that Hokie Feb 2025 #9

You could try that or SCP. I think I used SCP the last time I was doing file transfers on a Raspberry Pi. CentralMass Feb 2025 #10

SCP is what I was thinking of. CentralMass Feb 2025 #8

How to say "FTP" CloudWatcher Feb 2025 #11