Re: file transfers to Win2K

2000-05-04 Thread Ross Boylan
ftp is probably a good choice. Samba works too, but I have been told, and have found that it's relatively inefficient--lower throughput that ftp. In scripts running from NT 4 or 5 I've noticed that MS shares tend to drop after a period of inactivity. While this is fine, they don't get reconnecte

Re: file transfers to Win2K

2000-05-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Additionally you could use smbclient. This allows batch transfers as well and you wouldn't have to run an FTP server on the target machine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hiya > > what would be the best way to routinely (ie. daily) transfer 500MB worth of > image files from a linux system to a Windo

[OT] Re: file transfers to Win2K

2000-05-02 Thread Brad
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:52:00PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > what would be the best way to routinely (ie. daily) transfer 500MB worth of > image files from a linux system to a Windows 2000 or NT? This reminds me of an old joke: Customer: "What's the fastest way to move 500 megabyt

Re: file transfers to Win2K

2000-05-02 Thread Brian May
> "kmself" == kmself writes: kmself> FTP is an old reliable. Just make sure you transfer files in "binary" mode, and not "ascii" ;-). (unless, of course, they really are ascii). kmself> ...but FTP should fit the bill. What other alternatives kmself> were you considering/are av

Re: file transfers to Win2K

2000-05-02 Thread kmself
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:52:00PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hiya > > what would be the best way to routinely (ie. daily) transfer 500MB worth of > image files from a linux system to a Windows 2000 or NT? > > would ftp be the best choice or is it prone to bad behaviour if > unsupervised?

file transfers to Win2K

2000-05-02 Thread zdrysdal
Hiya what would be the best way to routinely (ie. daily) transfer 500MB worth of image files from a linux system to a Windows 2000 or NT? would ftp be the best choice or is it prone to bad behaviour if unsupervised? Zane