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You'd probably need to put the HD in the other machine. What is the "scrappy" way to do it?

joenot443 1y ago
That is the scrappy way :) I think sometimes we forget there are plenty of engineers out there whose experience interfacing with a computer begins and ends at the KBM. "Put the HD in the other machine" isn't super obvious to every junior, though I wish it was!
- layer8 1y ago
  Also, engineers who only ever worked with non-user-servicable laptops.
smitelli 1y ago
I have been nerd-sniped into conjuring up a less-traveled-path technique: Portable Python on the Windows computer. `python -m http.server`. On the Linux computer, something like `wget -mkp` followed by `find … -delete` to get rid of the index files. (Lots of disks are soldered in nowadays, or the procedure might require multiple M2 slots that the destination mobo might not have. Is your company IT department happy to know their hardware is being disassembled?) I have not benchmarked to see if this would sustain the 120 Mbps the original scenario would require.
- pphysch 1y ago
  I've done this exact approach and it worked well, it was on LAN so plenty of throughput. I would definitely try this before tearing apart the hardware.
- sdenton4 1y ago
  Or set up SFTP on the Linux machine, and find whatever Windows crapware that's able to connect to it... Filezilla, maybe?
  - zamadatix 1y ago
    Windows has had OpenSSH's ssh/sftp/scp client binaries built in by default for ~7 years now. You can also do this in reverse by enabling OpenSSH Server on Windows (included feature but not installed or enabled on boot by default) and having the sftp client be the Linux box, which can be easier depending which you have more control of.
  - chris_engel 1y ago
    Or just... put in a usb thumb drive, move the 50gb on it and call it a day?
    - bluefirebrand 1y ago
      If you don't have a thumb drive handy you could probably transfer it to your phone and use that instead I think many (most?) modern phones have that much storage
- mouse_ 1y ago
  I was gonna say nginx, lol. It's smaller and more portable than python afaik
  - nicce 1y ago
    Or just use PowerShell! It can run HTTP server too.

That is the scrappy way :) I think sometimes we forget there are plenty of engineers out there whose experience interfacing with a computer begins and ends at the KBM. "Put the HD in the other machine" isn't super obvious to every junior, though I wish it was!

layer8 1y ago
Also, engineers who only ever worked with non-user-servicable laptops.

smitelli 1y ago

I have been nerd-sniped into conjuring up a less-traveled-path technique: Portable Python on the Windows computer. `python -m http.server`. On the Linux computer, something like `wget -mkp` followed by `find … -delete` to get rid of the index files. (Lots of disks are soldered in nowadays, or the procedure might require multiple M2 slots that the destination mobo might not have. Is your company IT department happy to know their hardware is being disassembled?) I have not benchmarked to see if this would sustain the 120 Mbps the original scenario would require.

pphysch 1y ago
I've done this exact approach and it worked well, it was on LAN so plenty of throughput. I would definitely try this before tearing apart the hardware.
sdenton4 1y ago
Or set up SFTP on the Linux machine, and find whatever Windows crapware that's able to connect to it... Filezilla, maybe?
- zamadatix 1y ago
  Windows has had OpenSSH's ssh/sftp/scp client binaries built in by default for ~7 years now. You can also do this in reverse by enabling OpenSSH Server on Windows (included feature but not installed or enabled on boot by default) and having the sftp client be the Linux box, which can be easier depending which you have more control of.
- chris_engel 1y ago
  Or just... put in a usb thumb drive, move the 50gb on it and call it a day?
  - bluefirebrand 1y ago
    If you don't have a thumb drive handy you could probably transfer it to your phone and use that instead I think many (most?) modern phones have that much storage
mouse_ 1y ago
I was gonna say nginx, lol. It's smaller and more portable than python afaik
- nicce 1y ago
  Or just use PowerShell! It can run HTTP server too.