RFT is a service that manages other transfer services. It does not actually do any of the
transferring itself. Therefor it requires that a transfer service (gridftp) to be running on both
the source and destination endpoints of all transfers. You do not have to have a full blown globus
install on all endpoints, but you must have gridftp servers running.
I hope that addresses your concern, but I am not entirely clear on your expectations. Let me know
what else i can tell you.
Roelof Kemp wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to use RFT to copy files between machines that don't have
globus installed (but do have the CoG jars) and machines that do have
globus installed. Therefore, it would be useful if RFT could use a
passive connection like gridFTP, so that the globus machines do have
connections back to the non-globus machines. Is this already possible
(how?)? Or will it be part of newer RFT releases?
Cheers,
Roelof Kemp
