How to transfer data from one PC to another



     There are a lot of ways to transfer data from one system to another. For example, you have many ways to share data from one mobile to another, mobile to computer, computer to computer etc. But here are the one pro way to transfer data from one computer to another. The traditional way commonly used by most of the people is an external storage device to copy data from source computer and then copy to the destination computer, which consumes a lot of time as well as efforts. Another smart technique is to share data over LAN, but it also requires some previous knowledge of networking and an ethernet cable. Also, windows also provide Ad-Hoc, Homegroup options but that are very time consuming and tricky.

     Today, I'm gonna show you another very easy way to share your data with anybody. As all above methods requires some prerequisites, this method also have some pre-requirements to setup, probably already found on your systems. First and all you need is Python. It is totally free and opensource language and you can easily download it from here. Remember you'll need python installed on both system if you want to share/exchange data bidirectionally.


  • First thing you need to do is to bring your computer on same local network. You can do this by simply connecting from the same router. If you have laptops and mobiles, you can simply connect both systems through your phone's hotspot.
  • Once your both PCs on the same network, check your IP address for local network. You can easily check it by typing ipconfig in command prompt window. For *nix users, type ifconfig in terminal. Here you can check the IP address as IPV4 address.
  • Once you got the IP address, You can check the python by typing python in command prompt. If you correctly installed the python, then it starts. Most of the *nix distributions have pre-installed python library. Windows users need to add python in their system's environment variables. 
  • Now navigate to the directory which you want to share. You can also open command prompt in any directory by pressing right click while holding shift key and type the following command  python -m http.server

  • Now, on the other computer, open the browser and type the IP address of another computer from which you want to access data followed by its port number. Port is just like a communication gate between the computers.
  • In this illustration, the Local IP Address of my machine is 192.168.1.103 and it opens port 8000 for communicating. So, I typed the address shown in above image.
  • As soon as your connection established between the computers, The requested computer can access all the files present in that directory while another computer can monitor all the status of what  and how the another user accessing data.


     

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