[Nottingham] Configuring a basic web/FTp server

[Graham Greenwood]

Thank you for the reply Robert but I am unable to install third party 
application so PUTTY and Rsync are out of the question.  FTP seems to be my 
only choose due to XP basic FTP functionality.


>From: David Wolfson <eaxdrw at nottingham.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: eaxdrw at nottingham.ac.uk, nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
>To: roger at atchoo.org, nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Configuring a basic web/FTp server
>Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:09:56 +0100
>
>On Wednesday 12 October 2005 20:53, Roger Light wrote:
> > On 12/10/05, Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > The only advantage of FTP is that a basic client is installed on 
>windows
> > > by default. I would stash a copy of putty and it's scp (pscp?) in your
> > > uni network drive and use that instead if you can.
>
> > Don't forget rsync either if you're talking about keeping remote
> > machines in sync, especially if the data isn't going to change that
> > much. Rsync won't copy things that haven't changed, saving on
> > bandwidth and time to transfer. Yummy.
>it certainly is. I've not found any kind of gui, but haven't looked that 
>hard.
>
> > Rsync needs cygwin to run on
> > Windows (at least the last time I looked) but there are mini rsync +
> > cygwin installers around such as cwRsync -
>
> > Caveat - I've not used cwRsync.
>I have, and it seems to be fine. Another thing to look at is copssh which 
>will
>let a windows box act as an ssh server. The only thing to look out for is
>duplicate cygwin.dll.
>
>One other thing to bear in mind is that if your scripting with rsync you 
>need
>to set up public keys, or be there to login every time you run it...
>
>Good luck,
>
>Dave
>
>
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