Thanks a lot to all of you for your valuable advice.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Jim Idle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bruce Willmore wrote: > > Isn't ncftp a product by a for-profit company? If so, then some cash > > might have to be spent before that solution could be licensed and then > > used. Is the Windows server set up as a mount on your unix server, > > Ashutosh? If so, then there are several possible solutions. > > > Using ftp from UNIX to Windows is not generally a good solution unless > the Windows system is a server. However in any case, it would be much > better to use scp if you want to use something like that, rather than > Windows based shares. As scp works via openssh, and therefore uses > encrypted transport and trusted hosts (public/private keys) and there > are open source ssh/scp servers for windows. But if this is copying to > many Windows clients, then you want a server based solution that pushes > using a protocol that is already available on Windows, hence Samba. As > ever, make sure take care to consider the security angles. > > Jim > > > > -- Ashutosh Srivastava Sr. System Analyst - Stanbic Africa IT Email : [email protected] Cell : +27 74 145 7472 | Office: +27 11 636 4154 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
