On Thu, 8 Nov 2018, Baron wrote:
>
>My old machine has four HDD, and nearly 2 Tb of data on them.  So I
>thought rather than start buying cases for the HDD, I would just get
>the two machines to talk to each other, transfer any settings and
>carry on from there.
>
>But I have no real Idea how to go about it, hence the question.

Look at sshfs for a simple solution.

Jonesy
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