Transfer Data from one computer to another over WiFi (Ubuntu)

Resources

Option 1 Option 2

We will be using Samba to transfer the files. However, you are welcome to try any of the options mentioned in the links above.

Using Samba

Follow the link in this tutorial: Tutorial This covers the installation process and setting up Samba on the computer which is to be your server, the computer from where the data is to be transferred from.

While setting up Samba configuration add the Private IP address of the server under the interfaces variable under the global section. More details here

To be able to locate the Private IP address either type ip address show or hostname -I. The Private IP address will generally start with 192.168..

Note: Do not put the the subnet mask in the Samba configuration. It will generally be a suffix of the Private IP address e.g. 192.168.0.0/24 the /24 is the subnet mask.

Once this is done continue with the tutorial to transfer the files via Samba.