How do you transfer worlds from a windows vanilla server to a linux craftbukkit server?

I am trying to transfer worlds created on a windows 7 "vanilla" server to a dedicated craftbukkit server running on Ubuntu 12.04.2 server (no GUI). Both these servers run on a LAN and are also publicly accessible... so I pat myself on the back for accomplishing this, as I am learning as I go. I even managed to install a plugin and configure permissions for it. However, something seemingly as simple as transferring worlds eludes me. I am able to create, move, navigate to, as well as create and delete files/directories from the CLI in Linux (I'm a noob, but persistent at Linux).
I copied (a) world from the win7 server to a flash drive, stuck it in my Linux box and managed to copy it to the directory where the craftbukkit.jar file is located, but I can't get it into the /world folder (where it seems like that's where it belongs). I think I have tried every syntax combination I can think of... something is missing and I can't figure it out.
I have exhausted my resources in helping myself (and have learned a lot in doing so) so I joined this forum in hopes for some direction. Someone out there has to have done this. Is there a tutorial or can I get a simple, "Yeah, just do this!"
Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

 

What commands have you tried to move it?
Do you have the correct permissions to move it?

 

Maby you should setup a FTP server. Much easyer then command line. A quick google search will find you everything you need.

 

Archive all files with a password, upload on your website then use wget to download all in the new server. This is how I will do it if you don't want to use ftp.

 

Thanks for your reply. Here is what I've done to try to get my win7 server world into my craftbukkit (Linux) world directory:

login as: thechief4914
[email protected]'s password:
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
System information as of Sat Mar 9 04:47:11 PST 2013
System load: 0.06 Processes: 84
Usage of /: 1.1% of 228.31GB Users logged in: 0
Memory usage: 3% IP address for eth0: 192.168.0.12
Swap usage: 0% IP address for virbr0: 192.168.122.1
Last login: Sat Mar 9 04:44:28 2013 from 192.168.0.2
thechief4914@Brycraft:~$ cd craftbukkit
thechief4914@Brycraft:~/craftbukkit$ ls
banned-ips.txt crash-reports server.log world
banned-players.txt help.yml server.log.1 world_nether
bukkit.yml ops.txt server.properties world_the_end
craftbukkit.jar permissions.yml stupid
craftbukkit.sh plugins
thechief4914@Brycraft:~/craftbukkit$
thechief4914@Brycraft:~/craftbukkit$ cd stupid
thechief4914@Brycraft:~/craftbukkit/stupid$ ls
desktop.ini Gymnayseeum
thechief4914@Brycraft:~/craftbukkit/stupid$
thechief4914@Brycraft:~/craftbukkit/stupid$ sudo cp -r Gymnayseeum /craftbukkit/world
thechief4914@Brycraft:~/craftbukkit/stupid$ cd ..
thechief4914@Brycraft:~/craftbukkit$ cd world
thechief4914@Brycraft:~/craftbukkit/world$ ls
data index.html.1 level.dat players session.lock
index.html index.html.2 level.dat_old region uid.dat
thechief4914@Brycraft:~/craftbukkit/world$

Gymnayseeum is the world from win7. Stupid is the directory it has been copied into (from the flash drive). I would expect Gymnayseeum to show up in the world directory. I'm not sure what the "desktop.ini" is.
Maybe I shouldn't have named the directory "stupid"!
Are worlds created in there respective platforms not completely compatible? I'm sure I have missed something.
I will give FTP a try.
Thanks

 

Those commands you ran look correct. You should verify that your server.properties file has this line: "level-name=world"

That "level-name=world" corresponds to the "~/craftbukkit/world" directory.

And yes worlds copied from win7 should work fine on linux. I have done the same thing many times.

 

I've been trying to stick my win7 world into the craftbukkit "world" folder... which is the name of the world I play in. It appearse, DUH, that worlds generated in craftbukkit just populate the craftbukkit directory instead of being stored in tbeir own folder (like where the plugins are stored). I realized this after I installed multiverse and created a new world and then saw where that world was stored....
I think Im on the right track now. Ill gives this world transerring another try. Thank cnaude and the rest of you guys.

 

O.k., this is a follow up on my original post. This is probably common knowledge to most, but it wasn't for me. What I ended up doing was setting up ftp on my server and using FileZilla on my windows desktop to easily transfer stuff to the server. I was suprized how well it works. Sooooooo..... I guess my issue is fixed. Sweet!