ftp whole directories..windows solaris file transfer

happytoday

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Jun 21, 2010, 6:17:57 PM6/21/10

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How can I transfer whole directory with its subdirectories ?
Still I need to a file transfer protocol between windows and Solaris
other than ftp. Something like rcp but between windows and Solaris .

Ian Collins

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Jun 21, 2010, 6:30:21 PM6/21/10

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There are several SCP clients for windows.

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Barry OGrady

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Jun 21, 2010, 10:17:09 PM6/21/10

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What's wrong with FTP?

Robert Gruener

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Jun 22, 2010, 7:32:02 AM6/22/10

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Am 22.06.10 00:17, schrieb happytoday:

> How can I transfer whole directory with its subdirectories ?
> Still I need to a file transfer protocol between windows and Solaris
> other than ftp. Something like rcp but between windows and Solaris .

WinSCP might be useful and rsync works between Solaris and Windows as well.
Also you can use Cygwin or parts of it. There is a ssh port for windows,
which includes bash and ssh, so scp is available.
Have a look at www.itefix.no

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Cheers / Gruesse

Robert

Robert Gruener

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Jun 22, 2010, 7:32:54 AM6/22/10

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Am 22.06.10 04:17, schrieb Barry OGrady:

Maybe security? And the standard ftp client does not work with directories.

Barry OGrady

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Jun 22, 2010, 8:57:55 AM6/22/10

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:32:54 +0200, Robert Gruener <rgru...@gmx.de>
wrote:

Wsftp on the Windows end and the standard inbuilt FTP server on the
Solaris end work with whole directories.

hume.sp...@bofh.ca

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Jun 22, 2010, 9:46:30 AM6/22/10

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In alt.solaris.x86 Barry OGrady <god_fre...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Wsftp on the Windows end and the standard inbuilt FTP server on the
> Solaris end work with whole directories.

Putty on the Windows end and the standard inbuilt SSH server on the Solaris
end are probably a whole lot easier (and more secure, but mostly easier).

It saves tripping over passive/active mode, filtering in one or both
directions, NAT, etc etc. And it does directories.

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Scott

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Jun 24, 2010, 9:40:44 PM6/24/10

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In these types of situations I prefer to set up Samba for Windows to
pull from. With multiple machines you can set one Linux/Unix Samba
server to act as a transfer server.

Canuck57

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Jun 25, 2010, 8:18:17 PM6/25/10

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The following:

- insecure, plain text passwords for starters.
- does not traverve many "cheap" firewalls
- Microsoft's version is brain dead, see passive versiuse active.
- Many Microsoft sites don't configure their firewalls property to the
brain dead MS FTP server.

Download putty, place the pscp.exe in the \Windows directory, then copy
away.

IF you are on a home network and it is not wide open on the internet,
use Samaba. Maps a drive fast, in fact faster than Microsoft servers on
the same hardware.

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solx

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Jun 26, 2010, 3:13:22 AM6/26/10

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I use FileZilla client to copy hundreds of files and directories from
the wife's windows pc to my solaris workstation as a backup using port
22, this allows up to 10 simultaneous transfers to take place while ftp
is limited to sequential only.

Get FileZilla Windows client here

http://filezilla-project.org/download.php