Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!geriatrix.cs.uoregon.edu!akm From: akm@geriatrix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Copying over ethernet??? (FTP -- client???) Message-ID: <1991Jun27.030216.12803@cs.uoregon.edu> Date: 27 Jun 91 03:02:16 GMT References: <1991Jun26.183057.29559@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <31853@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: usenet@cs.uoregon.edu (Netnews Owner) Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Oregon Lines: 26 In article <31853@hydra.gatech.EDU> jm21@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Marks) writes: >In article <1991Jun26.183057.29559@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> CWIKLA@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu (John/Consultant) writes: >> I want to know that if I have two 386's with ethernet cards, is >>there some way that I can transfer files between them over ethernet (a >>PD program would be BEST!). I have copies of NCSA telnet and the clarkson >>version of NCSA telnet, but they only allow the PC to act as a SERVER... >With the distribution of Clarkson's add-on to NCSA telnet is an ftp program. >You could set up one of the PC's as server with telnet (or tn3270) and then >run ftp on the other machine. If you don't have ftp, it is in the >clutcp.zoo distribution archive on omnigate.clarkson.edu. The directory >is /pub/cutcp/v2.2-D. I've done this before without problems (you will >need to set up a password file for telnet and enable file transfers). >I'm assuming that the ethernet you're talking about using is Internet. If >you're trying to just hook them up with cable, I don't know of a way. > Actually, I think that if you just hook them up with ethernet, following all the guidelines for ethernet connections, and assign the machines internet style numbers, everything should work fine. kartik -- Anant Kartik Mithal akm@cs.uoregon.edu Network Manager, (503)346-4408 (msgs) Department of Computer Science, (503)346-3989 (direct) University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1202