UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all,
i first have to ssh into my university account and then through there another ssh into my office computer, from my home computer. I have been trying to transfer files to and from with no such luck.
How do i send a file from home to my office computer.
Do I have to send it to my university account, then log in there then send it on to my office comp. Or is there a quicker way

Thanks yogi

What OS(es)?

Sorry,
my home and office has fedora core 4 running, and the university one is unix.

The only suggestion is to use rsync -
Set up a directory on your university account that is kept in sync with one directory (tree) on the office computer.

Then you can access the files directly from home.

I have a similar situation. But because of quotas it became a pain to maintain, so I just keep everything on my work boxes in one directory tree - then copy it to a thumb drive right before I leave work.

Thanks.

I really have no idea how to do any of that, as I have just started using unix. But at least I know the what to read up on. I'll let you know how i get on.

Yogi

To tranfer files you need an account on the other box ('remote').
All services requiere a running server on the other side. perhaps you have also one or more firewalls in you way, that is something i can not figure out from here but may cause the service to fail.

1. ftp - interactive program
usage: ftp remote
it ask for user and password you can use 'cd' to change directory on the remote machine and 'lcd' on your local box. use 'put filelocal' to send files to remote machine

2. scp - non interactive
scp filelocal user@remote:.
will copy the 'filelocal' into the home directory of 'user' on remote.

for both commands: read the man pages for more information

I think OP's work box is behind a firewall. Otherwise he would connect straight from home. Why would he want to do a "jump" like that otherwise.

The only other choice is to tunnel through from the outside. Which AFAIK requires specails oftware.