Dear Unix Gurus,

I am very very new to UNIX. :unsure:

Apreciate your advice/guidence on the following.

I have a HPUNIX machine and i want to copy some files from this machines to a windows shared drive.

I am not sure how to go about it.

To my little knowledge i think it is not straight forward. And i understand that i need to go through some procedures like mounting and etc.

Pls advice me how to go about doing this. A step by step guidence would be really helpful as i am novice to UNIX platform,

Thanks a million in advance.

Nicky

Install an FTP Server onto the HPUX machine, and FTP into it from the Windows machine (Quite simple).

... OR ...

Install Samba onto the HPUX machine, and map a network drive from your Windows machine (Not so simple).

Thanks for the reply.

Pls help me on this.

How do i check if FTP is installed in my HPUX box?

What are the requirements on the Windows side(Destination) and what are the Unix commands i need to use for FTP?

Thanks a lot.

log into your HPUX box and type "ftp localhost". If you get anything other than connection refused, you probably have FTP installed already.

FTPing from a UNIX machine to a Windows machine is a major hassle, and i wouldn't recommend it ever.

FTPing from a Windows machine to a UNIX machine is much easier, and i would highly recommend it.

To FTP using the preferred method, you can either using Windows's built in FTP client (by typing "ftp" into a command prompt), or you can download any freeware or trial FTP client from the internet, such as CuteFTP, WS_FTP, SecureFX, CoreFTP etc...

Then, you just connect to your UNIX box using the Windows FTP client, and transfer files back and forth.