I recently bought a new laptop and need to transfer data from my old desktop computer. Both the computers run Ubuntu (Gnome version).  Is there a way I can take a normal LAN cable and connect the two computers together and transfer the files?  Because the other option is to copy it first on an external hard disk and then to the hard disk of the new computer. That could be time consuming as I do not even have a 1TB external hard disk.  And no, I do not have a WIFI network.
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I have two laptops running Ubuntu 12.04. Both connect to the same WIFI network to access internet.  How do I connect them to each other so that I can access files on one from another and vice versa?  Also, how do I manage the user permissions, etc. on them?
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I have two computers running Ubuntu; one is my work computer and the other is my home computer. I'd like them to behave as basically the same computer. Any programs installed or files changes on one computer would be reflected in the other computer. So for example when I come home, I could press 'sync', and the changes made during the day on my work computer would appear on my home computer.  Is this possible?
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I got myself a dell laptop from the local computer store. Its a used machine with Windows Vista Home Basic on it. I want to load Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 though so I can do perl development. BUT I want to keep a copy of the entire harddrive with the dell utility partition and Windows Vista in case I want to go back. I was thinking I could image the drive but I not sure what to use, I don't have Ghost or anything, Someone had told me about Clonezilla. Would that work for me? Is it hard to use? Also I want to burn the data to a DVD or something more storable than a harddisk.
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I was using the  to transfer data from my old MacBook Pro to my new Mac.  I didn't anticipate issues using Wi-Fi, but the transfer of 250 GB of data using wasn't going to end within a day of starting, so I interrupted it and I intend on starting over using a wired network (or ) to speed the transfer.  However, now it says my HD on the new one has 60 GB occupied and I dont know where this exists. My created account has no documents/apps/etc.  I want to delete this and start fresh if the software won't clean up an aborted transfer reliably.  What is the best way to start over?
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I am trying to get some files off of my school Linux account using ssh. I have got the connection to work using:  scp &lt;school_server&gt;: ~/folder I want ~/where I want to go.    But when it goes to transfer folder it gives me the message:  not a regular file    The file contains .java files, and I want the whole folder.
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I'm sitting on 8 old computers of varied sorts that are more or less useless at this point for any other purpose really. Is there a way I could link their hardware or processing power or whatever together over wifi and use one as like a central computer? Like it would be cool to distribute the processing of some video game or encryption generating program over the collective computers. Any way to do all this?
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I want to connect 3 Windows computers (2 Windows XP, 1 Windows Server 2003) to an external USB hard drive via USB.  I would like each computer to be able to directly read and write to the HD as if it were directly connected to each computer.    Using special file transfer software isn't a viable solution.  Sharing the HD over the network also won't work for me.  Is this possible?  Thanks for any advice!
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It's driving me nuts! I just want to transfer one simple file from laptop to server.  I'm using ubuntu on both machines.  So I have:  -rwxr-xr-x 1 sandro    414622 2011-10-14 23:42 sandrophoto-html.tar.gz   And I'm sending it using:  sudo scp -P XXXX sandrophoto-html.tar.gz usern@server.local:/media/xx/xx/xx   And I get: scp: /media/xx/xx/xx/sandrophoto-html.tar.gz: Permission denied  p.s. I might be doing this other way around - I want to send file tar.gz that is located on my desktop, to remote server into the folder /media/yadayda
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I have a wireless Access point which is connected to internet and the same being accessing by 2 system, one on windows XP and the other on Ubuntu.  Please let me know if it is possible to access the c:\ d:\ or any drives on windows xp machine directly from ubuntu system ?  I have tried doing this with 2 windows xp system but not sure how to do this from ubuntu.  Any help regarding the same is highly appreciated. (reason to do so is to access files in windows xp machine)  -Thanks &amp; regards, Manju
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If I have Computer-A, and share a folder to be accessed by Computer-B, can I take that same shared folder and share it with Computer-C?   Computer-B has two itnerface cards, eth0, and eth1. eth0 is connected on the same network as Computer-A, and eth1 is connected on an alternate network that Computer C.  Computer-B is on both networks.   Computer-A &lt;--> Computer B &lt;--> Computer C  Platform: Ubuntu 10.04   Thanks  -Manny
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My laptop got broken (by what it seems the graphics card burned) and it is so old that it is not worth fixing it.   I took the harddrive from it and tried to use it as external hard drive with other computer, however I cannot access all the data, ie anything that is inside my user folder (it shows it to be empty). Couldn't find anything to solve it.
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I have Ubuntu installed on my work computer. I am wondering whether I could have access to it from another computer with Windows installed. If so, could you give a step by step guide?
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Im trying to share the wireless from my netbook eeepc to my desktop computer that does not have any wifi, it can run internet through a cable connected to my internet router but im wondering if there is any way to share my netbooks wireless through the ethernet cable. the desktop is running on 12.04 and the eeepc is running on 12.10
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I want to share the wireless Internet connection on my desktop with my old laptop, through ethernet.  I have ticked the option "Make available to others" on both connections, on my desktop, but my laptop doesn't connect. Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug?
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Due to some home network complications I have had to move my router to a seperate part of the house, therefore the wired network I had set up can no longer work. Before I find the time to go out and buy a Wifi adapter for my desktop PC, I have a laptop that uses a built in Wifi card to connect to my router and this can connect to the internet, and I was wondering if I could somehow access the internet on my desktop PC via my laptop.  I'm hoping for a not-so-complex solution as this will only be set up for a few days, but it is quite vital that my desktop computer gets internet access.  Does anyone have experience in this sort of thing and can help me out? Thanks.
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I've just cloned a computer () and I want to make sure it will be OK on the same network as the original.   I've changed the host name back to what it was pre cloning, so there won't be duplicates on the network, but I want to make sure I make any other necessary fixes before I put the computers running Ubuntu 12.04, on the same network. Is there anything else I need to do before I link them back up?
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I have a problem: My school have a network drive, called I:\, which i can connect to from Windows 8, but i cant do it from Ubuntu :( I am a complete Linux noob, so its probably just because i dont know how to, but i write the info i need to connect from windows, so i hope you will help me :)     Share (At least i think so):   \vihcafil11.global.local\elevhome$\ums\htx\*username* Username:   Global\*username* Password: *password*   If you know how to do it, please help me ^^  Jonas Strand