Moving Files Between YDL Machines

[Sean Kelley]

A good site for describing OS X as NFS Client:

http://www.withay.com/macosx/nfs-client.html

Sean

On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 04:41  PM, John Howland wrote:

> 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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