Looking for the best way of sending a 50MB file

[fredex]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 06:43:32PM +0200, peter kostov wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 16:08 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> > Dear All
> > 
> > I need to send a 50MB file to someone. What is the simplest way of
> > doing that? I do not have any web-site to put the file for
> > downloading... Any ideas? Is it complicated to setup a secure ftp
> > server?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Paul

Or like the old saying goes: "Never understimate the bandwidth of
a station wagon full of magnetic tapes!". So, my point is it might
be easier to just mail a CDROm with the data on it.

Fred

> If you have OpenSSH installed, I think it will not be complicated. But
> first read the man pages for ssh, sshd and ssh-keygen ('man ssh' and
> 'man sshd' and 'man ssh-keygen').
> On Fedora it is very likely that you have all this installed and
> configured and you will have only to generate your keys.
> After you have working configuration on both machines you will need just
> a simple command like this: 
> 
> 
> scp -P <portnumber> -C -i ./.ssh/id_rsa -r "username at hostname:path_to_remote_file_to_receive" path_to_local_file
> to receive a file, where -P is the port on which sshd listens, -C is compression enabled, -i points to the identity file, 
> -r means recursive;
> 
> scp -P <portnumber> -C -i ./.ssh/id_rsa -r path_to_local_file_to_send "username at IPaddress:path_to_remote_file"
> 
> 
> Peter Kostov
> > 
> 
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