How do I send a large (100gb) folder from my win11 pc to my mint cinnamon machine?

[iron whale]

They are physically next to each other (can string a usb a to c cable between them). Oh, and Im a brand new user.

[main robin]

cheapest efffective way if they share a network, is use Warpinator on Mint (included) and Winpinator app on Windows

[iron whale]

https://github.com/swiszczoo/winpinator this?

[main robin]

yes. click the releases link on the right center area

get the 64 bit or as applicable to your machine

[iron whale]

trying to use it, but its just stuck on "registration in progress" 😭

[main robin]

i've seen it run on Windows, but is this the installer just taking long?

[iron whale]

nah, its running

[iron whale]

just stuck here

[main robin]

launch Warpinator on the other computer

then it should "register" another peer.

[iron whale]

other pc just says this

[main robin]

disable any firewalls on both pc

i think in Mint it's either in settings under 'firewall' , or just launch gufw from alt+F2 or terminal

and use the same network group name for each one in preferences as it says.

plus the other computer's local IP address should be on the same segment as the one Mint is showing above. eg: 192.168.1.___

[iron whale]

hmm

turned off the firewall

nothing is appearing now

[main robin]

in rare case (or poignant purpose) the router may have been set up in "isolation" mode, where other things on it can't see eachother

[iron whale]

getting this

[main robin]

but first check those other things

[iron whale]

on the same I think

[main robin]

on the Windows computer type 'ipconfig' in the prompt /terminal

i forgot how to reallycheck but it should show similar segment

then check each apps prefs for common group name

[iron whale]

both are on the same

im getting ip addresses, subnet mask and default gateway

[main robin]

subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0

as it commonly is

[iron whale]

it is

[main robin]

and the one describing LAN card or WLAN adapter should have the 192.168.1.xxx listing

i would presume it is

[iron whale]

it is that too

[main robin]

can you file share between the windows pc and anythng else on the same network router currently?

[iron whale]

would I use warpinator for that?

[main robin]

if u have another linux pc to test

[iron whale]

I dont sadly

[iron whale]

but opening lan servers for mc and stuff usually works

[main robin]

u have to click the checkbox for allow on private networks

then click allow access

[iron whale]

I never got that notif

[main robin]

on windows defender

i mean UAC

or perhaps u didnt have Defender Firewall on anyway when u launched.

in which case, no matter

[iron whale]

I got my uac like that

[main robin]

double check the state of Windows Firewall

[iron whale]

its off lmao

this is so odd

[main robin]

idk. restart both systems

[iron whale]

will do, thank you

[main robin]

then launch the Mint client first, then the windows client

it should detect the other.

https://youtu.be/LbYlmhKtcwE?t=392

hopefully you get it working, there's also a different client named Warpinator For Windows (also on Github) in case still this doesn't work

don't plug usb cables between computers

a crossover LAN cable is permissible, but there's some more junk to setup in software for network static IP between both for that

lastly there's USB EZ Transfer cables, but linux support for them is spotty indeed.

[main robin]

oh there's also setting up a Share Folder in Windows.. and setting up sambashare on linux

more complicated than Warpinator tbh

[iron whale]

its finally working :)

5 hours to send it though lmao, oddly slow

[main robin]

kind of yeah, then again it is wifi at least on one side

by my calc. that's 47.7 Megabits per second.

not horrendous, but not superb for a peer-to-peer LAN

[iron whale]

gotcha, thank you:)

guess ill just have to sit tight

how fast would ethernet on both sides be, may I ask?

[main robin]

On cinnamon, I would recommend go to Settings>Applets> download more: and get the Inhibit applet, add it, and turn it on to manually inhibit sleep or suspend or screen off during the transfer

[iron whale]

thank you, will do

[main robin]

and just check power management on windows too so it doesnt sleep or hibernate partway during transfer

[iron whale]

done, cheers

[main robin]

hello. Did it work out?

[iron whale]

yep, think so :)

thanks a lot for your time

[main robin]

sweet. now u have learned something useful. Please mark this one solved.