SFTP over LAN between Linux and Windows.

[willielikesmonkeys]

So I have a desktop with multiple hard drives running Windows 8 and Arch Linux. I would like to give Read/Write access to a laptop also running Windows 8 and Arch Linux over LAN. What is the best way to do this and have full filesystem Read/Write access whichever OS I am booted into? I have heard Samba is a good solution but are there any others? And if I do use third party software I would need it to have the option to start at boot up. 

[wako7654]

Samba will fit your needs in my personal opinion, it is also possible to run it at boot up if you configure it as a linux service.

[99vw]

What os are you going to be using to share the files?

 

If linux I'd go with samba and attach the share as a network drive in windows.

[ygohome]

I've used Samba on a linux machine as a means to keep a file repository for the windows users in our small family business.

 

For sftp between my laptop and linux, I use CYGWIN with openssh installed on my windows laptop in order to have the ssh service running on it.  

 

Also gui tools like securecrt/fx are great when I want to drop some files onto a linux/unix.

 

Depends on which is quicker... sometimes it is easier to just scp... sometimes securefx... sometimes command line sftp.  For scheduled production integrations, I use scheduled or event driven sftp/lftp scripts.

 

 

*here is a pdf that helped me alot when I was getting started with samba... http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf

[dylandylandylan]

For windows - > linux file transers I just use winscp, does the job for me quite well, deals with a few different protocols too.

[alpenwasser]

I've been using SSHFS to transfer files between our Linux machines (allowing me to mount

my Linux drive on a Windows machine). It is very easy to set up, but the Win implementation

is still ever so slightly buggy when you are trying to mount multiple shares at the same time.