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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:00:51 +0000 (UTC) |
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James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'd be curious what folks on this list recommend, or any other |
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> software for such interoperability between gentoo and XP/vista |
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> systems. |
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I, too, highly recommend PuTTY. It has lots of nice options, and needs |
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no installation, but rather will happily run straight from download. |
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It's tiny and fast, and supports telnet, rsh, and some others, as well |
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as SSH. The putty people also put out a SCP client, but I didn't much |
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like it; working from the command line in windows is just so painful. |
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I recommend against FTP becuase I find it too inflexible for my needs. |
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I find the ability to put a file anywhere on the system, and for any |
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user, without requiring a complete login session, much better. |
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Finally, if you wish to use Samba you should be able to do so over |
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vpn. I have used Samba-over-VPN with much success, and strongly |
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recommend openVPN for this task. It doesn't make file transferring any |
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different, it just puts all the computers on the same network -- making |
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it that much easier to run these services securely, since they don't |
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have to listen on external ports. |
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-- Dan Farrell |
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PS: I bet there's some windoze-side support for rsync these days too. |
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