accesing ext3 trough net

[Guest]

Hi everyone!
I'm quite new to linux and specialy to forums forms.

I have a question.

I have two external HD plugued to a Mac-Leopard based system. The HD's have mostly ext3 and a little of fat32 filesystems. The thing is I need to access does two to transfer the data in those to my Kubuntu based system at a distance of about 8000km so:

Which is the recomended whay of doing it?

One detail... its about a 50Gb data transfer

I'm quite sure that from Linux you can access those even if the Leopard doesn't detect the filesystems but dont know how.

Thanks everyone!
Sorry about my english, I'm not native english!
Thanks again.

tdy.

[askrieger]

Re: accesing ext3 trough net

I'm not at all sure I understand your setup. Do you really have two hard drives separated by 8 (thousand) km. attached to THE SAME COMPUTER? Or, do you have two computers separated by 8 (thousand) km? When one considers that the circumference of the Earth is only 6,378.137 km (give or take a few meters), you can understand my difficulty. I think what we have here is a failure to communicate.

Please don't take this personally. When I attempt to communicate in Spanish (or any language other than English), my polyglot daughter pretends she doesn't know me. Fortunately, we do have KUBUNTU ESPANOL. Many of the people who frequent those parts of the site are extremely knowledgeable. I suggest that you ask your question in Spanish, there.

However, if I assume that in fact you have two computers separated by a reasonable distance, and that they are in communication via either a local area network or (more likely) the internet, you can use a console program called "ftp" that uses the "File Transfer Protocol" to transfer files from one computer to another. Basically, you login to one computer from the other, and then copy the files that you want to transfer, from the first computer to the second. There are a number of graphical interfaces to the ftp program, (some people like a program called kasablanca). but I just use the command line interface.

[dibl]

Re: accesing ext3 trough net

When one considers that the circumference of the Earth is only 6,378.137 km (give or take a few meters), ...

To add my irrelevant nit-picking, says here the circumference of Earth is 40,075.02 at the equator.

[askrieger]

Re: accesing ext3 trough net

Gaah, MY BAD, I thought I had looked up the circumference when I had looked up the radius and didn't think about the result. Color me embarrassed! Now do you see why my daughter pretends she doesn't know me. I only get worried when her mother pretends she doesn't know me.

[dibl]

Re: accesing ext3 trough net

Al, your point that it is one helluva ethernet wire remains valid.

[Guest]

Re: accesing ext3 trough net

Dear askrieger, definetly we have a great comunication! Your answer was great, and the answer of dibl was much more.
I do have a great ethernet wire part and a really bast wifi part of a net called Internet
The most interest idea was the one of having a 8000 km computer. But the thing is, I have one computer in a country with two external HD attached at it and another computer 8000 km apart from the first one in another country.

Like you I prefer to use the shell or terminal and the command line way. Having an ftp server was one of the posibilities that I never look for, one cos its usually is really slow and the other one was in these situation that the MacOs-Leopard do not read the ext3 file system.
So what I was wandering is if I can read or mount the ext3 partition attached at the Mac (without the Leopard mounting the device) through the internet with the Linux.
But I'll try to figure out how to mount an ext3 under Leopard (I have never use a Mac) and make an ftp server from it.

Spanish? Certainly you hit the Jackpot there!!! I'm spanish native but I have the culture of making all in english when it comes to computer staff's

Again thanks for the help and specially for the funny time you give me!