You could set up an ssh server on either side, and transfer files easily and securely. I do this all the time.
On Sun, Oct 26, 2025, 4:39 PM The Wanderer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2025-10-26 at 14:37, Hans wrote: > > >> I might be missing something here, why don't you use the SMB > >> protocol? > > > > Well, I did not say, that I do not want to use it? I said, I do not > > want to add an extra(!) protocol. > > > > Maybe I expressed myself not correctly. I just want to copy without > > any change of the target windows system by using a commandline in the > > shell. And looking for a syntax or a way, how to do it. > > In order to copy to a remote system, you have to interact with a program > that's running on the remote system. > > If you aren't willing to set up - on the Windows system - a program > that's intended for the purpose, you're going to be limited to the stuff > that's built in to Windows. > > As far as I'm aware, that's SMB, which is - for practical purposes - > also to say CIFS. > > > Windows-to-Windows can do copying like that with a bare command (not > requiring an explicit mount), such as > xcopy C:\path\to\source.file \\remote\share\path\to\destination.file > , as long as the credentials set up in the environment are valid for > accessing the remote share - but even that, I'm nearly positive, > effectively does an implicit mount of some type. (And it does use the > SMB/CIFS protocol.) > > Under Linux, in order to copy or browse or whatever, you have to have a > path to copy or browse *to*. That requires specifying where in the > existing filesystem to put that path - and doing that is, itself, a > mount operation. > > Unless you're willing to set up a daemon on the Windows side which will > handle the communication itself, bypassing filesystem syntax etc., > you're not going to be able to get away without an explicit mount step. > > -- > The Wanderer > > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw > >
