--- Tyler Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > Unfortunally, it stopped at 2GB and told me 'file size limit exceeded' So, > now I'm way confused. I can create an 3GB file with dd, but I am unable to > download a 3GB file. Is this something fixed in the new version of Mandrake > 8.2? I have tried Redhat 7.2, Slackware 8.1, and a few others, all of them > have the same problem. > > Any suggestions would be so helpful! >
Yes, stop using insecure software like ftp or telnet! I can't even remember the last time I used a non-anonymous ftp server ... anyway if it is between machines in a private network then well ... still do not use them ;-) Use ssh. You can use scp (secure copy) or sftp (secure ftp, just a nicer interface to scp). In your case, this is what you need to do: 1. On the Windows side: Install a the ssh client software on Windows. Easy, just follow the following link, and download putty.exe, pscp.exe, and psftp.exe. Save them to a directory in your path (C:\Windows or C:\WINNT depending on your version of Windoze). For completeness, make a shortcut to putty.exe (only this one, since the others are not gui applications) on your desktop. 2. On the linux side: just make sure sshd is running. If you do not how to check this, just run "chkconfig sshd on ; /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd restart" as root. Finally, on the windoze machine open a command prompt and run "psftp username@linuxhost", and use as any other ftp client. Good luck, and send me one of those 3GB files if it has naked ladies ;-) ===== ________________________ Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/
