[KLUG Members] Adding a Laptop To My Network

[Wesley Leonard]

IglooFTP might be serve the purpose.

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Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 
> Well, thanks to the bloated public school system I'm now adding a Dell
> Lattitude Cpt to my home network.  So far I'm pretty impressed with it,
> despite the fact that laptops have notoriously sludgy I/O.  fips20
> happily shrunk the Win9x parition, and BS-Ware PRO virutally leapt onto
> the harddrive.  X-Free, sound, etc... all worked straight away,  I never
> touched a config file.  I plopped in a PCMCIA ethernet card (D-Link,
> $48, which says it supports Redhat right on the box) and told control
> panel to use DHCP, and I was on the net.  Whew,  that was too hard. :)
> 
> The primary used of this laptop will be my wifal unit (to borrow a
> Gettig phrase).  This means everything "just has to work",  no command
> line, nothing should ever crash "'cause this is Linux, right?".  She
> spends her time between Star Office, Web browser, and GnuCash.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I've already found out that Redhat's PPP dialer applett is just as happy
> turning eth0 on and off as a PPP interface.  (This is Ximian GNOME,
> BTW).
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