[Sussex] external hard drives - much confusion.
Steven Dobson
steve at dobson.org
Sun Nov 5 15:54:22 UTC 2006
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
<snip>
> 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
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