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00:00what's up friends i thought of sharing with you the possible ways to transfer files with
00:09a windows xp machine some of you may be aware of these methods have tried them before some others
00:16may not consider this a nostalgic video more than it is a demonstration video so i'm gonna
00:26have an rdp connection to my windows xp machine
00:39remember here you should put your username on that machine in my case it's like this
00:45here the password okay
00:50the first method of transferring files with windows xp
00:55requires you to install a piece of software known as patty many of you probably heard or
01:03used this piece of software
01:08so
01:11i have here firefox
01:13this one sounds like it works with most of the modern websites
01:17the website of patty should be patty.org the latest version works on windows xp
01:27i do have it installed here
01:34about its release 0.83
01:42close this
01:42if we download it for example just to prove that it's the same version
01:52i have downloaded it and the link shows that it was downloaded before
01:57if you wonder what is the version of firefox that i have here
02:02maybe you wanna have the same and use it with modern websites here i show you it's 52.9
02:09yes esr
02:12so let's exit out of here
02:18we need to have a
02:23terminal window here
02:25and run ipa
02:27to know what is the ip address in my case it's 10.1.1.4 since we're gonna do some file transfers
02:36with this machine where i'm recording
02:39from windows xp
02:42to this one and then from this one to windows xp using patty
02:48i should open again cmd
02:52we should have a command called pscp
02:59and we can see that it works
03:03let's move to desktop
03:04then the ir
03:12let's copy winfetch
03:15psc
03:17pscp
03:20winfetch
03:23winfetch
03:26and then the username of the computer from which i'm recording which is user in my case and the ip
03:32address that we have just seen now
03:37colon
03:38and where we want to have such file it should be under home slash user
03:46slash or let's just keep it like that enter
03:54we should specify the full name enter
03:59why enter password
04:07okay so
04:12if i press ls here type ls enter we should have winfetch here it's transferred correctly
04:24let's make a file here call it for example test
04:31or transfer
04:38and now we go back to windows xp machine
04:40and then pscp
04:46the origin of or the
04:51place from which we want to transfer is now our our linux machine arch linux in particular
04:58so it should be user ip address
05:03colon home
05:06slash user
05:08slash trans
05:11transfer
05:13and then period
05:15to select
05:18the target destination folder for
05:23receiving the file period
05:24enter
05:31password again enter
05:34we should have a file called transfer
05:37on the desktop
05:38as you can see here
05:42it's empty zero bytes so we can simply delete it
05:48the second method i have a lot of nostalgia with it which is mostly
05:52the native method that's pre-installed on almost any windows machine when it comes to windows xp
06:01it's of an older version so if you want to connect to windows machine and transfer files with it using this method on
06:11something like windows 10 you need to go to
06:15control panel it's not the same as this
06:18you should go to add or remove programs and then add or remove windows components
06:25the interface is totally different
06:28and then you should have from within that list an option called smb1
06:36it's the default one on almost any windows xp machine
06:40and the ones that came before the versions that came before
06:47i need to establish
06:51an rdp connection to my windows 7 machines
06:56okay in the meanwhile
07:06while the windows 7 rdp connection is established i wanted to tell you that i have
07:15shared one of the directories or folders on my windows xp machine which is the local disk d
07:24the sharing is simple i believe you go to properties after right clicking
07:33on your mouse you go to the sharing tab and you select share this folder the permissions
07:43never mind that we will do it again with a different folder if your
07:54client machine is a windows machine and has the samba version one installed
08:16if you have samba pre-installed on your windows machine version one
08:21and you go you go to a specific place which i'm gonna show you now you're supposed to see
08:29all all the shared folders from your windows xp machine
08:35okay so the place where you should go on your client machine since our windows xp is gonna be the samba
08:44server machine you go to a server machine you go to network
08:51i know the name of my windows xp machine it's this win2k think center or thin center
08:59it's supposed
09:05you're supposed to know yours and
09:08it should appear for you here if i enter it by double clicking it i should i should see all my shares
09:22you need to type the password and the username of your windows xp machine in my case it's like this
09:28and then okay one of these is my d drive the one that i shared from my windows xp machine let me find my windows xp machine first
09:48so it's here let me show you what i have inside you can see that i have all these things
10:01and now let's go back to windows 7 machine try to guess which one is the d drive yes this is the one
10:10since the files look very similar let's go back to windows xp
10:16you can see you can see that they are the same if we want to uh transfer files you we can do it
10:29let's just drag and drop take something very small like this one take it and put it here
10:46and we can see that the file was copied successfully let's do the opposite which is taking the file from windows
11:027 to windows xp like this and like this
11:16let's scroll down here is our file that we just copied over uh now let's share another folder from our windows xp machine
11:39let's say i want to share this folder i can simply go to properties or before properties we have right click properties
11:59and then sharing share this folder and then permissions you should allow change
12:18these ones changed uh somehow on the newer versions of windows so you need to be aware that
12:26the interface is changed so change and then click okay and then okay
12:37let's get back to our windows 7 i and then i press it f5 we can see here that my pictures is appearing
12:50in our sharing in our shares folder let's see for example this and we are able to see the picture that is in
13:03the windows xp images folder if we want to mount any windows xp folders on linux we should have a piece of software
13:14i guess uh call it cifs utils so let's see if we can install it for example on arch linux which i have here
13:32i do have it installed the command for mounting for example data which is my d
13:39folder folder you should know what is the name of the mount after going to properties and then sharing
13:53this share name is what you're gonna use when you want to share or when you want to mount something as
14:02you're gonna see for example here when we go to sharing i call it my share name my data and many others
14:17the command should be the mount dash t cifs the double uh forward slash the ip address of the windows xp
14:27machine machine slash the mount name uh i'm gonna go with data it may be the valid to prove that it is
14:36and then where i wanna mount my uh folder my windows xp folder i can select whichever folder or whichever path
14:47on my linux machine i can go for example with public dash o the username of your windows xp machine in my case
14:56it's uh this one and then work group usually it's uh work group as long as you didn't change it
15:09it should be somewhere under properties of my computer and then uh here
15:20and then the verb you should have between username and work group a comma and then a comma and then
15:35verse equals 1.0 enter uh the username here isn't ali but it's user and let's type public it should auto
15:48complete it enter we run it as sudo root
15:59we check our public folder we can see that we have all the files of windows xp mounted here from that folder
16:12so the last way of sharing files with windows xp is setting up an ftp server on your windows xp machine
16:24simply by going to control panel then add or remove programs then add or remove windows components
16:33you should you should enable the internet information services and then you go to details
16:43and then you enable file transfer protocol service you click ok you click next
16:51and it should take some time to enable the changes you finish and then you close out of here you go to
17:03administrative tools internet information services and then you go to ftp sites default ftp site
17:15you should have it started the next thing is from within the control panel you go to windows firewall
17:28you go to exceptions and then add port ftp the port number 21 and then you click ok here and then ok here
17:39in administrative tools and internet information services you can change some of the permissions of your ftp server
17:59by going to properties i mean right click then properties on your default ftp site and then for
18:09for example you can disable anonymous connections for example and have a password there to know what is your ip address of your windows xp machine which you're gonna use in order to connect to your windows xp file ftp server
18:31you type ipconfig inside of your command prompt the folder of your windows xp where you're supposed to have
18:44the files that are transferred from your windows xp and to it should be under c and then
18:54then in net pub and then ftp root so if i wanna transfer files to my windows xp machine
19:08the process is simple
19:12in your file explorer in your machine you type ftp colon
19:17double slash the ip address of your windows xp machine you can connect as anonymous as long as you
19:28kept it enabled or your registered user and you type your username and password usually the ones that are
19:35assigned with your normal user that you use every day click connect inside the directory that is
19:44inside the directory of our windows xp machine we can try to create files
19:57the second method is by typing ftp in the terminal 10.1.1.3 in my case the ip address of the windows xp machine
20:06and then enter anonymous here enter and the password in your case if you have chosen to let only some users
20:16connect you should specify their username and their password so we are logged in here if we try to make
20:24a directory and call it test for example
20:34or let's make the directory here
20:37we go back here and then type ls we have a new folder created here i guess i have to change some of the
21:00the properties of my ftp server from within the administrative tools within ftp sites this one go to the properties
21:15we have to enable right here apply and okay and then here we can type test one if we type ls here we should have the two created folders folders and that proves that we have
21:43the right access there we can make a file file one says invalid command no problem here we can this is
22:03this is taken longer uh to load which caused me to use the command line in order to show that i can
22:11transfer files with my windows xp ftp server and that makes it for this video please subscribe like share and comment
22:22and peace
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