Moving Files Between YDL Machines

[John Howland]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com

> > Subject: Re: Moving Files Between YDL Machines
> > 
> > 
> > You might want to look into rcp.
> > 
> >   I know it is available for OS X (it either installs by 
> > default or with 
> > the developer tools cd, I'm not sure which). It uses 
> > reasonably secure 
> > authentication (kerberos) although it does not encrypt or tunnel the 
> > data stream between the two machines. You might be able to tunnel it 
> > through ssh if you need that much security.
> 
> Can you not just use NFS? Surely you can find an NFS client for OS X

The Apple netinfo documentation details how to setup NFS for OS X

> somewhere.
> 
> The other thing you could possibly do is use WebDAV. You'd need to fire up
> Apache with DAV enabled on the YDL machines. Lord knows how you'd script it
> unless you can mount the volumes.
> 
> Finally, you should look at setting up netatalk on the YDL boxen. That might
> get you where you want to go most quickly.

You could also setup samba under YDL to provide smb access which is supported
under OS X.

> 
> Caveat: I'm a Win/Solaris/Linux/x86 guy with lots of experience. I'm a total
> Mac noob.


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