The Answer Squad

I have been using my Xbox 360 as a media device lately. I’m running Linux on an older P4 machine running U-share. It allows me to stream media be it pictures, music, or videos to my Xbox in the other room. The problem is when I am doing things I am usually on my laptop so if I download a video or some music that I want to be able to stream and its on my laptop it has to get to the server some how. Being as the server is running ubuntu server with no monitor, the only real access is ssh or ftp. Since ssh is much more secure and I don’t have ftp installed that’s how I move the files. It is actually a lot simpler than you might think.

From the command line type:

scp filename username@server:~/

Example:

# scp thistext.txt root@192.168.20.101:~/

That’s all there is to it. Stick around for a tutorial on installing U-share and setting up to stream media to your Xbox.