Unless there is some magical out-of-band negotiation where both sides magically agree on what is about to happen, one side is going to make a request and the other side is going to satisfy that request. I suppose both sides could just broadcast their entire local content in some kind of a loop and the other side just collects the part they care about.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 1:05 PM Tyrell Jentink <tyr...@jentink.net> wrote: > I would argue that Morse code also has something resembling a Client and a > Server... One client, maybe Carson City, NV says "Chicago, I have Nevada's > State Constitution, can you forward to Washington, DC?" Chicago's telegraph > operator cries a small tear, then starts copying. Carson City is the client > and Chicago is the server. Then, Chicago says "Hey, Washington, DC... Hope > your sitting down, here comes the longest telegram in history..." And then > Chicago is the client, and Washington DC is the server. Then that telegraph > Operator sends his copy over to President Lincoln, and Nevada becomes a > state. > > I'm really not sure in which way one EVER gets away from one node being a > server and another being a client... > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 12:51 Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> > wrote: > > > If the "secure" part of scp is bothering you, Richard, you can use rcp > > instead. But, really it's all the same thing and the normal way of > copying > > files over a network for the last couple decades. You are *always* going > to > > request that a copy happen from one side. In the scp/rcp context, that > side > > going to be the "client", and the automated software that responds to > that > > request on the other side will be the "server", but the server might be > > receiving the file or sending it. Unless you hire some morse operators > to > > send data back and forth, that's probably about as serverless as you are > > going to get. > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:37 PM Galen Seitz <gal...@seitzassoc.com> > > wrote: > > > > > On 8/12/19 11:43 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > > My post declared SERVER/CLIENT relationships are [expletives deleted > > ;] > > > > > > And I bet your desktop is running an X *server*. Oh, the horrors! > > > > > > If you really want to compute like it's 1975, there's always uucp, but > I > > > think you would be much better served (pun intended) by learning how to > > > use scp or nfs/samba. > > > > > > > > > galen > > > -- > > > Galen Seitz > > > gal...@seitzassoc.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
