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General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: Doktor Zeus on February 27, 2015, 07:32:37 AM

Title: FTP to TC?
Post by: Doktor Zeus on February 27, 2015, 07:32:37 AM

Hi All,

I have a TC VM which is working fine. I have used TC-Install to make it persistent, which also works fine, however I now need to copy a couple of small files to it to make it into what i need it for, however can not FTP to/from it.

Bearing in mind that I need to keep the footprint on the disk as small as possible, I need a way to do this.

Could someone please advise?

Also, relativly new to linux, so please bear in mind while you are no doubt a Linux genius, I dont have a clue so please explain in a "simple" way  :-[

kind regards,

DZ

Title: Re: FTP to TC?
Post by: bmarkus on February 27, 2015, 07:44:54 AM

There are many ways to move files between TC and other machine depending on your environment VM, host OS, etc. You can install mc.tcz to have Midnight Commander. It is Swiss Army Knife for Linux with built-in ftp and sftp client. You can initiate transfer on TC to other machine. If you install and run openssh.tcz you can move files with sftp using a client on the other machine. If it is Windows, use, WINSCP. On Linux. mc is a good choice along with many others.

Dependong the VM to make SSH server available in TC from the host or remote machine can be a bit tricky.

Title: Re: FTP to TC?
Post by: Rich on February 27, 2015, 11:16:39 AM

Hi Doktor Zeus
If  ftpget/ftpput  are still included in  busybox  they might be worth looking at:

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tc@box:~/findpcs/src/findpcs-v0.90$ ftpget --help
BusyBox v1.19.3 (2011-10-30 01:47:29 UTC) multi-call binary.

Usage: ftpget [OPTIONS] HOST [LOCAL_FILE] REMOTE_FILE

Retrieve a remote file via FTP

        -c,--continue   Continue previous transfer
        -v,--verbose    Verbose
        -u,--username   Username
        -p,--password   Password
        -P,--port       Port number

tc@box:~/findpcs/src/findpcs-v0.90$

Title: Re: FTP to TC?
Post by: curaga on February 27, 2015, 11:51:33 AM

There are a number of FTP servers available, I usually use bftpd as it's both small and nice.