Quick and dirty file sharing?

[Michael Baer]

>>>>> "Jay" == Jay Savage <daggerquill@mac.com> writes:

    Jay> Hello all!  I've recently fallen into an IBM Thinkpad i
    Jay> Series 1412 (my wife's ols computer, now that she has an
    Jay> iBook.  Her turn for an new machine).  I've euthanized Win98
    Jay> and installed Mandrake 8.2, which seems to run beautifully,
    Jay> so on the whole is a good thing; MkLinux on my old Powerbook
    Jay> 5300 was never a satisfactory solution, although it sure beat
    Jay> whatever might have been in second place.  I have however
    Jay> been spoiled by Apple designs, and come to rely heavilt on
    Jay> the Power Book's SCSI (now FireWire) Target Mode feautre for
    Jay> quickly transfering files. without the hassle of networking.

    Jay> Now I am faced with the question of how to quickly and easily
    Jay> move and sync files between the Mandrake machine and my
    Jay> YDL/MacOS G3 over my home network Any suggestions on the
    Jay> simplest way to do this?  NFS seems overkill for the small
    Jay> amount of data I'll actually be moving (and I don't really
    Jay> want to rebuild either kernal right now) I think the most
    Jay> obvious solutions are either setting up netatalk on both
    Jay> machines, or setting up the desktop as an ftp server (the
    Jay> network is behind a firewall, so security shouldn't be an
    Jay> issue).  Can anyone speak to the pros and cons of both
    Jay> methods.  Is htere something I've overlooked?

I haven't set up a server before so I don't know how much effort is
involved, but another thing you should probably consider is rsync. It
sounds like it would work even better for you.

Mike

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