Remote Connection - File Transfer on Windows

the PuTTY program we talked about a couple of lessons back, supports the SCP protocol. The PuTTY package comes with a tool called the PuTTY Secure Copy Client or pscp.exe. You can use it to copy files in a very similar way to the Linux SCP command. Pasted image 20260624172240 pscp.exe, and I’m going to grab a file from my desktop. Then I’m going to copy it to my Linux work station. Then I’m going to add the location of where I want to copy it to.

Now if you go back to my Linux workstation, we can see that it was copied. Pasted image 20260624172315 Using PuTTY or SCP to transfer files can be a little time consuming, especially if you need to transfer files to multiple machines.

As an alternative, Windows came up with a built in mechanism to share files by using the concept of shared folders. Shared folders do pretty much what you’d expect from their name. You tell Windows you want to share a folder with a person or group of people, then drop some files into it. Anyone you’ve shared the folder with can then access those files. Sharing folders in Windows is easy.

Just right click on the folder you want to share. Then mouse over this share with option. Then pick specific people from here. Pasted image 20260624172439 From here, you can add the individual users or groups you want to share the folder with. Pasted image 20260624172500 There’s even an option to add everyone to the sharing permissions, which might be convenient but isn’t super secure. Once you’ve shared the folder, you can access it from other computers.

Start by opening up this PC, then going into the computer tab. From here, you can map the folder directly to your computer with the map network drive option. Pasted image 20260624172536 Finally, on another computer, you can visit it directly from the run box by typing in backslash whatever the computer name is, and then backslash the folder name that you mapped it to Pasted image 20260624172626

You might be interested to know that you can share folders from the command line too using the net share command. Net share let’s you do the same thing as the GUI sharing workflow. You’ll need to specify what kind of permissions you’d like to give which users. Let’s say you wanted to give everyone on your network full permissions to a folder called ShareMe. You could execute this command from an elevated or administrator level PowerShell prompt. Pasted image 20260624172735 For more information about managing shared resources in Windows, check out the link here