[Sussex] external hard drives - much confusion.

[Steven Dobson]

On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 15:34 +0000, John D. wrote:
> Thanks to all who offered suggestions in how I might get this external HDD 
> configured.
> 
> Especially to "Lord Dobson of LUG" :D who kindly plugged it in to one of the 
> available laptops at the BCF and managed to access the devices browser based 
> config page and put all the right stuff in the right boxes, enabling me to 
> get it home and plug it in and access it straight away.

That's HIGH Lord Dobson of LUG to you John :-D

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> Now all I have to do, is to see if I can get away with just using FTP to 
> transfer my backups to it or whether I'll have to go through the drama of 
> learning how to set up samba to do the same thing.

Take a look out for a program called "wput".  It is a tiny ftp-client
that uploads files or directoryies to a remote FTP server.  It should do
the job for you.

Steve