Simple question about data transfer

Dear all!

I want to send several files of 50 MB to a friend who lives in another
city. Since the files are so big, I cannot send them by email. My
question is, which utility can I use to send those files given that I
dont want my friend to use passwords (for example using ssh to access
to my account).

Thanks,

Diego Andres

Diego Andres Alvarez <diegoandresalvarez@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
: Dear all!

: I want to send several files of 50 MB to a friend who lives in another
: city. Since the files are so big, I cannot send them by email. My
: question is, which utility can I use to send those files given that I
: dont want my friend to use passwords (for example using ssh to access
: to my account).

HTTP.

stick them on your web page and your friend can download.

Obviously any method without a password will mean that
in principle anyone can download the files. So web
is about as secure as any.

To hide them place them on web but don't link to them
anywhere- just send your friend the URL's.

Stan

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On 2005-01-06, Diego Andres Alvarez <diegoandresalvarez@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear all!
>
> I want to send several files of 50 MB to a friend who lives in another
> city. Since the files are so big, I cannot send them by email. My
> question is, which utility can I use to send those files given that I
> dont want my friend to use passwords (for example using ssh to access
> to my account).

Use 'split', send the pieces, and use 'cat' to reassemble them?

Good luck.

Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

On 2005-01-06, Diego Andres Alvarez <diegoandresalvarez@lycos.co.uk> wrote:

> I want to send several files of 50 MB to a friend who lives in
> another city. Since the files are so big, I cannot send them
> by email.

Burn a CD and drop it in the post?

> My question is, which utility can I use to send those files
> given that I dont want my friend to use passwords (for example
> using ssh to access to my account).

You could set up a web server or an anonymouse ftp server.
There's a pretty good chance the CD/post method will get them
there sooner if you're starting from scratch (server-wise).

To paraphrase Tannenbaum:

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a lorry full of CDs."

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Diego Andres Alvarez wrote:
> Dear all!
>
> I want to send several files of 50 MB to a friend who lives in another
> city. Since the files are so big, I cannot send them by email. My
> question is, which utility can I use to send those files given that I
> dont want my friend to use passwords (for example using ssh to access
> to my account).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Diego Andres
>

Create a user account for your friend and send him the password anyway,
Then put the file(s) on ftp. Or even sftp.
Cheers,

Diego Andres Alvarez wrote:
> Dear all!
>
> I want to send several files of 50 MB to a friend who lives in another
> city. Since the files are so big, I cannot send them by email. My
> question is, which utility can I use to send those files given that I
> dont want my friend to use passwords (for example using ssh to access
> to my account).
>
>
Write them to CD-ROM with mkisofs and cdrecord. 7 of the things would fit
on a CD-ROM.

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Diego Andres Alvarez wrote:

> I want to send several files of 50 MB to a friend who lives in another
> city. Since the files are so big, I cannot send them by email. My
> question is, which utility can I use to send those files given that I
> dont want my friend to use passwords (for example using ssh to access
> to my account).


.... you could setup an ftp server on your end. or you
could put the files in your web server's document
directory and then your friend could type in the URL.
or you could do it the old fashioned way: snail mail.
the other way is for each of you to get a gmail acct.
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Success is also easy to handle: you've solved the
wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Diego Andres Alvarez wrote:
> Dear all!
>
> I want to send several files of 50 MB to a friend who lives in another
> city. Since the files are so big, I cannot send them by email. My
> question is, which utility can I use to send those files given that I
> dont want my friend to use passwords (for example using ssh to access
> to my account).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Diego Andres
>
What I did was to make sure I had midnghtcommander installed and sshd was
running on both. I got the ip address of the other machine as well as the root
pass word then used mc to do the transfers. It worked for me with no problems.

Leo wrote:
> Diego Andres Alvarez wrote:
>
>> Dear all!
>>
>> I want to send several files of 50 MB to a friend who lives in another
>> city. Since the files are so big, I cannot send them by email. My
>> question is, which utility can I use to send those files given that I
>> dont want my friend to use passwords (for example using ssh to access
>> to my account).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Diego Andres
>>
> What I did was to make sure I had midnghtcommander installed and sshd
> was running on both. I got the ip address of the other machine as well
> as the root pass word then used mc to do the transfers. It worked for me
> with no problems.

1.) What did you need midnightcommander for? Just use scp, since you seem
to have sshd running on both machines.

2.) If you are running sshd on both machines, what did you need the root
pass word for? No sysadmin should give that out.

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On 2005-01-06, Leo <leowhiteway@yahoo.ca> wrote:

>> I want to send several files of 50 MB to a friend who lives in
>> another city. Since the files are so big, I cannot send them
>> by email. My question is, which utility can I use to send
>> those files given that I dont want my friend to use passwords
>> (for example using ssh to access to my account).
>
> What I did was to make sure I had midnghtcommander installed
> and sshd was running on both. I got the ip address of the
> other machine as well as the root pass word then used mc to do
> the transfers. It worked for me with no problems.

How does that satisfy the "no password" requirement?

What's midnight commander in the picture for? If you're
handing out passwords, just use scp.

And for pete's sake don't use root passwords. If you're
handing out passwords, use a normal user account on both ends.

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