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How do i copy a file from a winows omputer to arch?
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What about ftp, provided you have a ftp server running on Arch. The other thing that comes to my mind would be installing and configuring samba on your Arch machine.
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the thing is that i want a file on my windows computer to my arch laptop.
even if i use samba how could i copy the file. i ont have a file manager.
sorry for stupid questions. but im new to arch.
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Have you considered installing a file manager? Check out pcmanfm for something light, or http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/mc-mp/ if you don't use Xorg.
If you have physical access to the Windows box I'd use a USB-stick..
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im using openbox. i tried thunar but it woulnt mount my USB stick.
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Open up a terminal window,
sudo fdisk -l
find your usb stick
/dev/sdXX is what you get from fdisk -l
sudo mount /dev/sdXX /mnt
Open up thunar and get the file from /mnt.
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Don't know about win, but they must have netcat!
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Thanks! that worked. but i thought thunar would automount. is there a solution to this?
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sounds like you are starting openbox the old way { exec openbox-session }
The new way so that automount works is
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
stick that in your .xinitrc
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where can i find the xinit file... cant remember .. it isnt /etc/skel/
edit: /home ofcourse
Last edited by stiffy420 (2009-12-12 17:41:51)
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ok. mount is working. but i still get some error messages in terminal. something like thunar-volman no property info.capabilities..... any fix to this?
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trying to get samba working to transfers those files from the windows computer. but when i try to start it it says fail. i get fam to start at least... im following the wiki
somehow i got samba working. But how can i access window shared folders in thunar?
Last edited by stiffy420 (2009-12-12 18:45:14)
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Another option is to mount your Windows partitions directly. See 'man mount.cifs'. It's part of smbclient.
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Another option is to mount your Windows partitions directly. See 'man mount.cifs'. It's part of smbclient.
yeah. that actually worked. but do i need samba installed for that? im copying a file right now with smbclient.
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skottish wrote:Another option is to mount your Windows partitions directly. See 'man mount.cifs'. It's part of smbclient.
yeah. that actually worked. but do i need samba installed for that? im copying a file right now with smbclient.
Only smbcleint which is a subset of samba.
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trying to get samba working to transfers those files from the windows computer. but when i try to start it it says fail. i get fam to start at least... im following the wiki
somehow i got samba working. But how can i access window shared folders in thunar?
I'd consider switching to gamin unless you really need fam for some reason, fam never worked properly for me and many other users had problems with it too.
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