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For sharing files between a guest Linux running in a virtual machine and the host system, the plain old FTP seems sufficient to me.
I intend to use the host, Win7 + Cygwin, as the FTP server. How-to's I have seen configure the FTP server as a Windows service.
Is it possible to run ftpd.exe directly, as a standalone executable?
I appended to /etc/passwd:
ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/home:
and I run in the Cygwin terminal
/usr/sbin/ftpd.exe -dDl
Given:
netsh interface ip show address "VirtualBox Host-Only Network" | grep IP
IP address: 192.168.56.1
then, in the guest Linux OS (an ArchLinux ISO) I run:
ftp 192.168.56.1
but I get:
Connected to 192.168.56.1.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
Note that the problem persists when Windows Firewall is disabled.
antonio
Posted 2014-10-02T10:58:40.517
Reputation: 647
which virtual-machine software do you use? – akira – 2014-10-02T11:08:39.057
VirtualBox with a Host-Only Network. – antonio – 2014-10-02T11:19:31.367
instead of using ftp*: http://askubuntu.com/questions/366742/how-to-share-the-files-from-host-to-guest-in-virtual-box-host-ubunutu-guest-ubu https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html
– akira – 2014-10-02T11:40:56.150@akira: I can't install shared folders in the ArchLinux ISO. Setup often requires restart and changes go away. – antonio – 2014-10-02T11:49:57.603
then just use ssh. – akira – 2014-10-02T13:08:36.503
@akira: I don't get you. I have to read/copy some file from a folder on the host to the guest. SSH is not meant for this. Perhaps you meant SFTP: but why do I need to encrypt the communication and make my life less easy if everything happens inside my notebook? – antonio – 2014-10-02T13:38:14.527
a) because by that argument you could just use
– akira – 2014-10-02T13:47:49.057ncb) ssh is started by default on most of the distros, 'ftp' is not. you are having problems with starting ftp ... since ssh is most likely already running, the ssh-route would make your live much easier c) i meant ssh because "sftp" means "ssh file transfer protocol" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol d) you can use a very fast cipher to speed the transfer up quite some bit, http://blog.famzah.net/2010/06/11/openssh-ciphers-performance-benchmark/e) to run an ftpd on microsoft windows to share files works around what's build in windows already: samba (or "cifs"). create a window-share on your windows-7 and just access it from within your virtual-linux. allthough i still think that this is the wrong route. – akira – 2014-10-02T13:50:46.313
@akira: a) In fact I am using it now; b) Wrong: FTP is already in the Arch ISO; c) "sftp means ssh file transfer protocol" and in fact I need to transfer files, not remote commands; d) Encryption is pointless in my use case and would involve installing again a Cygwin server on the host; e) Again, CIFS protocol is not in the Arch ISO. Simple to fix with
– antonio – 2014-10-02T15:57:52.763pacman -Sy cifs-utils, but see here. Now do you realise you are speaking about everything except what I asked? configuring a stupid Cycwin FTP server. Oh well, almost, you forgot NFS shares))b) read what i wrote. you will have a hard time to find any linux distribution nowadays which has a ftpd (the server-part) running at default. sshd on the other hand is common. i did not talk about ftp-client and ssh/sftp-client. c) which is why "sftp" is implemented ontop of the ssh-connection. you get sftp for free when you are running a sshd, usually. d) you would not install sshd on windows, you would install it on linux. and then share the files via any sftp-client from windows. you are trying to bend windows instead of using whats already there on linux. – akira – 2014-10-02T16:05:20.593
and yes, i realize that i do not explain how to run servers ontop of cygwin because i think that this is the wrong route for your problem. i often experienced folks asking for help on $topic with a certain solution in mind when their real problem was something else and did not need their "solution" at all. – akira – 2014-10-02T16:07:35.547
why do you use a iso-based linux that is lacking samba/cifs-support when you could run for example https://grml.org/files/grml64-full_2014.03/dpkg.selections ?
– akira – 2014-10-02T16:10:37.913