Connecting Two laptops over lan

[Guest]

hi guys. I got two laptops and i want to transfer data from one to the second using lan. Can u guys help me in doing it.

[Telengard]

Re: Connecting Two laptops over lan

What protocol would you like to use?

Edit:

Arrg, forgot to include link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Servers#File%20Server

[Guest]

Re: Connecting Two laptops over lan

What protocol would you like to use?

Edit:

Arrg, forgot to include link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Servers#File%20Server

Using TCP/IP protocols.

[Telengard]

Re: Connecting Two laptops over lan

Great. What program would you like to use to transfer the files?

[oshunluvr]

Re: Connecting Two laptops over lan

Some choices are:
NFS -> usually only for linux
Samba -> Windows and linux
FTP -> Any OS

Start by connecting the two laptops via crossover cable (or router/switch), restaring networking (or rebooting or turning them on) and see if you are connected.

Start with computer 1 and open a terminal (konsole) and type

ip addr show
This will list your active interfaces and they're ip's. Output will look like:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
  link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
  inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 7692 qdisc noqueue state UP qlen 65535
  link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  inet 192.168.1.199/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0

Note the ip address of the connection you are using. I will assume eth0. Then type
arp -n
This should list all ip's on your network other than the machine you are on. Unless you are on wireless, there should only be 1. Note the IP of the other machine.

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