UNIX to Windows...

[crazyhorse174]

Hi!

Hopefully this is a nice easy question for someone to answer!

Just wondering what is the best way to copy all of the files from an old UNIX server to a new Windows one? It's basically a load of old documents and stuff which are stored on the UNIX server just now.

Someone mentioned mounting the drives and someone else mentioned using FTP- was just hoping that someone might be able to help me out a bit!

Thanks in advance!

[ckempston]

You have a couple options, but I would recommend getting all the docs in one directory on the Unix server and just ftp'ing from the Windows box to the Unix box and doing an "mget." Minimal hassle. Of course, ftp daemon has to be installed and running on the Unix box. Or you could do the opposite and get iis/ftp up and running on your Windows box, then do an "mput" from the Unix box. Either way, it should be pretty quick. OR if you have another server running ftp services you could use it as a sort of staging server for your data.

To see if ftp is running on your Unix box, type "ps -ef |grep ftp" in a terminal window. If all you get back as a response is a line that says "grep ftp" then you don't have ftp running.

If you were running Samba, you could just UNC (\\servername) to a share name on the Unix server. Doesn't sound like you're running this.

If you had Unix Services for Windows you could connect to an NFS share. Doubt you have this software just laying around.

So, seems to me like your best bet is ftp.