[KLUG Members] Adding a Laptop To My Network

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Tuesday 17 July 2001 08:26, you wrote:
> > 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?



Pretty much how I do the same type of thing..

Mike
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