Does Knoppix support file transfers through a network? L00k&
Hi! I am a new user. I am having some problems with a computer.....so I was told to use Knoppix. The issue is that I cannot get to a desktop of a computer and the only alternative to fixing is reisntalling Windows.
Again, I was told to use Knoppix (I just downloaded version 3.7 and put the Image on a CD) so I could get to the desktop of this PC and access the files.
I know Knoppix allows for Internet access, but does Knoppix allow for sending files over a network to another computer that is on the same router?
There are some important files on this computer that cannot be lost. Although I wasn't planning on doing a drive format to install Windows XP again I wanted to be safer and backup these files on another computer.
The only way I could do it would be over the network since I don't have any USB drives.......and I really can't take out the harddrive and attach it to the laptop because a laptop isn't made the same as a desktop (in terms of the "guts")
So please let me know. If for some reason Knoppix does not allow for file transfers through a network, is there some other alternative to back up these files?
Lastly, I just thought of this alternative, does Knoppix have it's own CD burner? I suppose I could burn the files onto multiple CD's for backups if I couldn't use the network to transfer the files.......
Thank you and have a great week! :D
Re: Does Knoppix support file transfers through a network? L
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Originally Posted by Officer_Dufus
Hi! I am a new user. I am having some problems with a computer.....so I was told to use Knoppix. The issue is that I cannot get to a desktop of a computer and the only alternative to fixing is reisntalling Windows.
HI. Not sure what you mean by "get to a desktop". Can you boot Knoppix OK? If you are expecting to see the same "desktop" that you see with Windows, no, you are not going to see that. But you can move around the directory structure and find the desktop folder (or the multiple desktop folders that make up an Xp desktop).
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Originally Posted by Officer_Dufus
Again, I was told to use Knoppix (I just downloaded version 3.7 and put the Image on a CD) so I could get to the desktop of this PC and access the files.
I hope you understand how to burn an iso file properly. If not it is discussed in many other threads inthis forum. For now I'll assume that Knoppix is booting for you.
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Originally Posted by Officer_Dufus
I know Knoppix allows for Internet access, but does Knoppix allow for sending files over a network to another computer that is on the same router?
Absolutely. There are many ways to do this. One is to boot Knoppix, start the Smaba Server (Samba Network Neighboorhood), and just transfer the files to a windows system where you have creater a directory(folder) with full read/write access.
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Originally Posted by Officer_Dufus
There are some important files on this computer that cannot be lost. Although I wasn't planning on doing a drive format to install Windows XP again I wanted to be safer and backup these files on another computer.
Actually, if they were important you would have backups of them. But that's a different issue. If they are still out there and the partition is OK, Knoppix should be able to help you rescue them. There are other ways to recover them if the partition is corrupt or deleted, also discussed in other posts in this forum. It might help too if we knew what happened on this system. Why can you not read the files with Windows? (It's not Knoppix's fault if it can't recover the files if the drive no longer spins, for example.)
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Originally Posted by Officer_Dufus
The only way I could do it would be over the network since I don't have any USB drives.......and I really can't take out the harddrive and attach it to the laptop because a laptop isn't made the same as a desktop (in terms of the "guts")
Again, the networking support is there.
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Originally Posted by Officer_Dufus
So please let me know. If for some reason Knoppix does not allow for file transfers through a network, is there some other alternative to back up these files?
It does, but there are other alternatives. In addition to USB drives (and floppies) you could transfer the data to some place on the Internet (such as yousendit.com) and pick it up anywhere else. You mightt be able to burn a CD or DVD. I guess you could print it out on paper and OCR it back in. But local networking is likely your best bet.
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Originally Posted by Officer_Dufus
Lastly, I just thought of this alternative, does Knoppix have it's own CD burner? I suppose I could burn the files onto multiple CD's for backups if I couldn't use the network to transfer the files.......
Yea, knoppix has CD burning software. But unless you have multiple drives or a gig or more of memory, then you'll need to leave the CD in the drive while running Knoppix, so that might not work for you. But there are other Live Linux CD's such as Damn Small Linux that are small enough (50 meg) to load to RAM, or even burn to CD and leave the bullk of the CD available to write files to as a second session (and yes, Damn Small Linux has a burning program in it too).
Run Knoppix as command line on the problem computer
I have done this on my boxes and for a friend about a week ago.
Boot Knoppix on the bad box, using knoppix 2 which forces command line.
enter sambastart as a single command and then establish a password for knoppix and mount all drives r/w.
For simplicity sake set your workgroup to WORKGROUP on the windows machines. This is easier than changing the samba configuration.
On a new XP machine, the default workgroup is MSHOME if my memory is correct.
You will find the drives available on KnoppixShare or some such from windows computers on the network.
Since you are reaching out, this avoids the firewall problems on the windows machines. Mine XP notebook is recalcitant on shares even coming in or attempting to, from an operating W2K system