[KLUG Members] Adding a Laptop To My Network

[Bruce Smith]

> What I need to find is a EASY TO USE GUI file transfer mechanism.  She
> has mountains of files on our server,  which gets backed up.  So she'll
> need to be able to get and put files from her home directory on the
> server to her home directory on the laptop.
> 
> The sever has tftp, NFS, Kerberos V, apache, php, ssh, telnet, and
> sendmail installed and running.  I'm thinking that a GUI front end to
> SSH might be the best approach,  but I also have rsync (which I've never
> used), and just want to know if anyone has approached this problem and
> what the BEST solution is.  If I come up with something now, and change
> it in two weeks, my user base will be displeased.

How about NFS with a file manager to drop & drag files back & forth?
Since it's a laptop, maybe the NFS automounter would be good so the
network would come up remotely?

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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