Someone suggested netcat (or socat), gzip and dd via private e-mail. It sounds simple and efficient. Thank you! Anton Yurchenko <phila at cascopoint.com> >Ken Fuchs wrote: >I`d suggest installing some windows FTP server like WARftp, i`m not very >knowledgeable in windows world, IIS might do :)) >scp is also OK, but places a strain on encrypting/decrypting. ftp sounds fine, but how can it be piped to dd, so dd can copy it to /dev/hda for example? The disk image can be split into pieces and copied to a ram disk using ftp and dd could copy the pieces in ramdisk to /dev/hda, but I'd prefer a pipe between ftp and dd. >I also do not think that SMB or NFS would amount to any slowdown, >honestly I`d like to know why you think so. Many years ago, I heard that NFS was about 20% efficient with Ethernet bandwidth. Of course, I don't know whether that is still true. >>Anyone have suggestions on what might be the fastest way to copy a disk >>image from an MS Windows 2000 server to a GNU/Linux client's hard drive? >> >>I'm thinking of installing cygwin and openssh on a MS Windows 2000 >>server and using ssh on the Linux system to cat a disk image file, >>piping it to dd which copies it to the proper hard drive. >> >>I'm also interested in using a native MS Windows 2000 server and >>corresponding Linux client (such as an SMB server and Samba client). >> >>NFS can be quite slow; is SMB any faster? I suspect I should >>stay away from using network filesystems due to slower speeds. >> >>An open source software solution is preferred. Proprietary solutions >>would also be considered, especially for a significant speed gain. Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: plone.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list