[Ilugc] Ubuntu and Vista (peer-to-peer)

[Raja Subramanian]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Mohan R <mohan34u at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems, Vista don't want to connect with Ubuntu. Here is what happend,
>
> My collegue have Dell Inspiron preinstalled with Vista, Before he bought
> his laptop, he used my system. So he wanted to transfer his files from
> my system to his system. This is how we went.

One of the least painful ways to transfer files between computers is
to run a light weight webserver like webfs (no messing with samba)
and use a vanilla web browser to download them.

On Linux, webfs is a small web server that requires no config files
and can be entirely command line driven.

On Windows, I use the hfs web server, www.rejetto.com/hfs/.  No
install necessary, just run hfs.exe.  Open port 8080 or other on
your Windows firewall and any non-administrator user can then
use hfs to transfer files.

- Raja