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    Quote Originally Posted by dtherio
    ....and installed WinSCP as recommended...

    ....I get that same error ....

    Any ideas?

    Basically I need to copy files......
    I know nothing about WinSPC, don't even know what it is or care enough to look it up. However, I've recovered files across a network from a bad windows system to a good windows system with Knoppix many times. If you want to learn more about Linux and WinSPC and what is going wrong here, I can't really be of help. If you want to recover your files, I suggest doing what I already suggested in this thread: Install a free Windows FTP server on the good windows destination system. Boot Knoppix on the "bad" system. Confirm that you can ping the good system (check the firewall of the "good" system if you can't, or recheck your IP addresses). Connect by FTP using Konquror as the FTP client under Knoppix. Check the "good" system's firewall if you can't, or recheck the FTP server configuration. Transfer the files that you want by FPT. It will work and be much faster than any Microsoft based networking. You'll also find it extremely handy to have the skill to download install and configure an FTP server on a WIndows system whenever needed. Takes about 5 minutes or less once you do it a few times.

    And, if like the original poster, you are also trying to get wireless networking working under Knoppix, I strongly suggest that you just plug the computer into the network with a wired connection and get your files. Play with wireless after you have the needed data. Wireless support in Knoppix is not good for most hardware.

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    Hello Harry,

    Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
    Quote Originally Posted by dtherio
    ....and installed WinSCP as recommended...

    ....I get that same error ....

    Any ideas?

    Basically I need to copy files......
    I know nothing about WinSPC, don't even know what it is or care enough to look it up. However, I've recovered files across a network from a bad windows system to a good windows system with Knoppix many times. If you want to learn more about Linux and WinSPC and what is going wrong here, I can't really be of help. If you want to recover your files, I suggest doing what I already suggested in this thread: Install a free Windows FTP server on the good windows destination system. Boot Knoppix on the "bad" system. Confirm that you can ping the good system (check the firewall of the "good" system if you can't, or recheck your IP addresses). Connect by FTP using Konquror as the FTP client under Knoppix. Check the "good" system's firewall if you can't, or recheck the FTP server configuration. Transfer the files that you want by FPT. It will work and be much faster than any Microsoft based networking. You'll also find it extremely handy to have the skill to download install and configure an FTP server on a WIndows system whenever needed. Takes about 5 minutes or less once you do it a few times.

    And, if like the original poster, you are also trying to get wireless networking working under Knoppix, I strongly suggest that you just plug the computer into the network with a wired connection and get your files. Play with wireless after you have the needed data. Wireless support in Knoppix is not good for most hardware.
    I can SSH into the knoppix machine remotely, I can ping external machines from the knoppix machine. I have installed an FTP server on another local machine, however, I still can not ftp the files away (nor can I tar/gzip them) as no matter what I do, even though when viewing the properties of the mounted drive show it is writable, when I attempt (from the root terminal) to change the permissions or owner of the directories I need to recover, I get an error saying the drive is read only.

    Once I can get past that, I imagine I can probably get the files off the machine. Unless there is a way I am not aware of (quite possible) to ftp the files from the knoppix machine to another one when the knoppix user isn't the owner of the files.

    Regards,

    Dale

    p.s. the drives I am trying to recover files from are Linux, not windows. I have a couple of network drives available as well as a windows machine that I can move the desired files to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dtherio
    I have a similar problem. ......
    I violated my own rule here. Sorry. I should have just stuck to my belief that when someone says that they have a similar problem that they actually have a completely different problem and stayed out of the discussion.

    Quote Originally Posted by dtherio
    p.s. the drives I am trying to recover files from are Linux, not windows.
    I'm guessing that this is certainly a factor. Still, as SU, I would expect that you should be able to read the files. And read access is all that you should need on the system that you are trying to read the files from. The "I get an error saying the drive is read only" makes no sense to me. Is it really from the system that you want to recover files from, or is it perhaps from the destination system?

    I'll be quiet now and leave this discussion to those who know more about the wonders of Linux file systems. Perhaps I've at least managed to uncover a little of the truth of what you are actually trying to do, but I don't think that I can be of any more help than that.

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    Hello,

    Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
    Quote Originally Posted by dtherio
    I have a similar problem. ......
    I violated my own rule here. Sorry. I should have just stuck to my belief that when someone says that they have a similar problem that they actually have a completely different problem and stayed out of the discussion.

    Quote Originally Posted by dtherio
    p.s. the drives I am trying to recover files from are Linux, not windows.
    I'm guessing that this is certainly a factor. Still, as SU, I would expect that you should be able to read the files. And read access is all that you should need on the system that you are trying to read the files from. The "I get an error saying the drive is read only" makes no sense to me. Is it really from the system that you want to recover files from, or is it perhaps from the destination system?

    I'll be quiet now and leave this discussion to those who know more about the wonders of Linux file systems. Perhaps I've at least managed to uncover a little of the truth of what you are actually trying to do, but I don't think that I can be of any more help than that.
    The error is defiantly on the source drive as that is where I am trying to change the permissions/owner.

    At this point in the process (when I get the error), I haven't even tried to copy the files to the destination as that will not work as I do not have permission to copy them.

    I do appreciate your replies and suggestions. At this point the problem is with permissions/ownership.

    Dale

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