On Jul 11, 9:44 pm, ramson...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to share / transfer files between embedded linux version
> 2.6.8.1 and desktops (windows or linux). What is the best way to
> achieve this ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your time & help. Regards
>
> Ram

Ram, as pointed by other posters that samba is the very good choice to
get by. And, in case you want to avoid samba then have  look at Boa
[ http://www.boa.org/0.92/ ] web server. It is a single-tasking HTTP
server so that means very less resources are required which makes it
good candidate for embedded systems. You can write a simple app on
client side (*nix, *dos) for file transfer.


ali

On Jul 11, 9:44 am, ramson...@gmail.com wrote:

> I am trying to share / transfer files between embedded linux version
> 2.6.8.1 and desktops (windows or linux). What is the best way to
> achieve this ?

The "right" choice depends on the application. If this device is
supposed to look like a file server, and other application software
will be used to access it, then as cs_post said, samba is probably the
best choice. Your Linux device will appear in Network Neighborhood (or
equivalent browser, e.g. on MacOS) and the user can read/write it like
any other shared volume.

However there is no way of providing a user interface over samba. You
might be better off implementing an HTTP-based system if you want to
manage the files that the user is adding to/removing from the system.

On Jul 11, 8:44 am, ramson...@gmail.com wrote:

> I am trying to share / transfer files between embedded linux version
> 2.6.8.1 and desktops (windows or linux). What is the best way to
> achieve this ?

Samba is a set of tools that lets linux be a client and/or server of
windows (smb) file sharing.  If your linux system has the resources,
that would be very transparent once configured.

If your linux system is very small, you can get a tftp client & server
for windows, but that's mostly for transfering one file at a time.

You could also put an NFS share on the linux system and get and NFS
client for windows, or run a normal FTP client, or build in a web
server...  And I'm sure there are a dozen other methods.

But Samba if you can support it, and tftp for moving occasional files,
are good common choices.

Incidentally, you may also want to look at installing the cygwin
environment on the windows machine, to let you more easily deal with
unix type files and tasks.

Hi,

I am trying to share / transfer files between embedded linux version
2.6.8.1 and desktops (windows or linux). What is the best way to
achieve this ?

Thanks in advance for your time & help. Regards

Ram