Gcode sharing folder ( Debian / Windows 7)

You can try the Help menu

or

Here's the manual:
winscp.net/eng/docs/start

If you can't be bothered to learn terms I'd suggest you use Mach3/4, it seems to be more suited to a user with limited time as you claim to have.

Networking in general can be very frustrating for the uninitiated. Personally, I have more networking problems with Windows machines than Linux. In Windows networking can be very easy, or excruciating, depending on whether or not you are doing things the way Microsoft intended or not. Generally networking in Linux works better, but you need to know how to configure it, or how to look up how to do it.

We store all of our Machine's g-code files on a NAS share (more mumbo jumbo I know get over it), and access them on the Linuxcnc machines by mounting that share with CIFS or Samba. Usually I use a command line in the FSTAB file (a configuration file on the Linuxcnc machine) that permanently mounts the network share as a directory on the Linuxcnc machine. Instructions for doing this are easily googled. I usually have to look them up anytime I set up a new machine.

Thanks for the ideas Todd.

As time is truly limited, I'll continue to use thew thumb drive.
Dropbox was supposed to be a convenience, sorting all this is anything but convenient.
Perhaps I can find or make time for this in the future.

If you install Samba on the LinuxCNC machines then you can access the whole windows network.

I actually have Inventor running in a VM on my Mac saving the G-code directly to the G-code folder on the Milling machine controller.

Install samba and avahi on the LinuxCNC machine and things get _reasonably_ easy.

(You can install both using the Package manage gui (Synaptic). The trick is knowing the package names to look for.)

This I can do.
Thanks Andy

Can anyone help with this issue?
When I tried to install Dropbox via Synaptic it jammed up the program and it is still useless.
I get the following message when starting Synaptic:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

The package wasn't interrupted, it just failed, when I run the command above in a terminal it loads Dropbox to 100% and sits there doing zip.
Dropbox is not installed and Synaptic is still useless, is there a way to fix this short of reinstalling LCNC?