Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-18 Thread dfox
I'm a newbie and wish to transfer files from my networked Mandrake 8.2 machine to my home account on the university server. I'm sure mandrake ftp? Well, ftp will do the job and there are plenty of variants of it around, my favorite (non-graphical) is 'ncftp'. An RPM is included in the

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, db wrote: I'm a newbie and wish to transfer files from my networked Mandrake 8.2 machine to my home account on the university server. I'm sure mandrake comes with such a command line or xwindows utilty. Can anyone tell me what it's name is? If I know I am sure I

[newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-17 Thread db
I'm a newbie and wish to transfer files from my networked Mandrake 8.2 machine to my home account on the university server. I'm sure mandrake comes with such a command line or xwindows utilty. Can anyone tell me what it's name is? If I know I am sure I can look up the man pages for using it.

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-17 Thread et
even Konq (the default web browser and KDE file handler) can ftp and can connect to the folders on any other machine that allows you to. try it. the world is in your XFree86 file mangers, just like at your desktop On Wednesday 17 July 2002 06:13 pm, you wrote: I'm a newbie and wish to

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-17 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, If I want to transfer files from my laptop to my home directory on the college server (win2k) I have to mount it as a drive. First create a directory in linux to 'show' your home directory in.something like 'school'.I created mine in the mnt directory where the rest

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-17 Thread db
I don't think the KDE browser(s) has the security mechanisms required to connect accoss the university network to a /home account on the University mail server. It would obviously have to be able to ask for the account password for one thing ... can it do that? even Konq (the default web

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-17 Thread FemmeFatale
db wrote: I'm a newbie and wish to transfer files from my networked Mandrake 8.2 machine to my home account on the university server. I'm sure mandrake comes with such a command line or xwindows utilty. Can anyone tell me what it's name is? If I know I am sure I can look up the man

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-17 Thread Bill Davidson
You didn't mention how you need to connect, but I'll assume you want to use ftp. In konquerer, enter [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you'll be prompted for a password. For a good command line utility, see man lftp. Bill On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:40:34 -0700 db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think the