How to send giant files from windows to Linux (fastest way, local network)
of course it is not fastest for everyone but i only use one thing that needs downloading, python, to host and on Linux wget to receive it
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2025-01-17 00:00 +0000 [04bdc08 @ 2025-05-30]
How to send giant files from windows to Linux (fastest way, local network)
I needed to sent some files to my server and I was on same network and fastest would probably be to transfer it via cable or something but the private network is also fast
Plan
On windows
have python, you probably have that too.
and then host target folder with cmd. go to path file is located in:
cd /path/to/directory/file is located/in
run server with python:
python -m http.server 8000
and also get the IP of that machine to find file
ipconfig
this will display network adapters and search for one you are using and get IPv4 Address.
on Linux
navigate to directory for download to go in and run:
wget http://<widnsows IP>:8000/<file-name-with-extention>
if there is multiple files in folder and that what you want to download use:
wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=1 -A "episode*" http://<windows machine IP>/<url of folder>
-rdownloads content recursively-npdoesn’t creates parent folder-nhdoesn’t creates host directory--cur-dirs=1ignores top level directory-A "episode*"only accepts files that match this. pattern.
and the wait.
more on wget here.
note
this might not work bc windows blocks any kind of incoming network for http and also ping. so what i did was go in windows security>firewall & network protection and turn of whichever has your network name in active networks list temporally.for me it was public one but it can be private too. and after download turn all of that on again to be protected.
and on classics programmer fashion i wasted more time figuring all of this out then if i just uploaded it do cloud or something, but i hope there should be no error for you and this will be fastest.