[KLUG Members] Adding a Laptop To My Network

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>>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.
>wow - a box with telnet, tftp and NFS open and no FTP?  Lemme guess - not
>included for security reasons? lol

It's an LTSP server so you've got to have those things,  and the telnet
server is kerbized.  I don't have FTP because I ***HATE*** configuring
FTP servers.  It is tucked happily behind a very obstinate firewall.

>I have a number of nice gui's for ftp stuff if you forgot to mention that one.
>>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?

Hmmm.  I'd just need a way to make NFS unmount when eth0 is shutdown
(undocked).

>I am not aware of any front ends for rsync, but that doesn't mean there aren't
>any.  I also don't know of any linux gui's for ssh - but I believe I once ran
>across a version for winblows.  Lemme know if you want me to try to remember
>where I saw it.

Putty.