ftp Mandrake 9.2 to Win98

[camorri]

I have a signicant number of files to move back and forth between Mandrake 9.2 and Win98.

I can ftp from the command line, I can not get it working from a gui. I have tried kbear and gftp. I can connect, but can not list files on the W98 machine. These programs seem to generate a list command, and I can not figure out how to send a windoze dir command. Is there a way to configure either kbear or gftp to do it?

If not, is there some other gui program that will work linux to win98?

[blobaugh]

Are they on the same network? If they are it would be easier to setup Samba on your linux machine and share the files over the local net. As for the listing. What is the command that the gui clients are sending? Does the Win98 ftp server allow you to specify which commands do what? If it does and the command on the Win98 machine is diff then the clients are using(unlikely, but possible) try to change it on the server.

[camorri]

Yes, they are on the same home network. I have set up Samba, but have problems there also. I can read files from the Win98 machine, but get "assess denied" trying to write, from Linux to Win98. I thought the FTP issues would be easier to deal with. The other reason I wanted to FTP is I have an Win XP machine with a burner on the same home network. FTPing is a lot easier than sharing. XP demands user accounts and passwords, and still seems fussy to get it to work.

I will look into the server on win98 to see if there is some way to handle the commands. It appears kbear and gftp send list commands, what you would expect for linux to linux FTPing.

[DSwain]

i've never had winxp ask for usernames or anything like that. What i'd do is get LinNeighborhood, and use that program to mount your shared partitions over the network (whatever your MS workgroup is)

[camorri]

I have managed to be able to write to the samba share, from linux to Win98. I did not have the fstab entry set up correctly. I added uid=username,gid=groupname 0 0. That now allows me to write from linux to win98 without being root.

The one item I still don't understnad is, why can I not see the file names from gftp or kbear using ftp protocol? I can see them if I do a list from the command line.