With FTP, who needs samba?

I just tried an experiment. In W2K, IE6, when I type ftp://thunderbird
in the address bar, it gives me a logon window, and I'm suddenly logged
onto my Slack machine, such that /home/rich just shows up as a "folder"
a la Windows Explorer.

This makes it very easy for a lazy man to pospone RTFMing on Samba.

To Client: "Well, here's how you log on to the server, now, of course
you understand, you have to enter username 'whoozis' and password
'whatzis'."

Now, that's clearly cheating. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.networking.]
So anyway, it was like, 16:16 CET Feb 23 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Rich Grise was all like, "Dude,

> To Client: "Well, here's how you log on to the server, now, of
> course you understand, you have to enter username 'whoozis' and
> password 'whatzis'."
>
> Now, that's clearly cheating. ;-)

"Clearly" being the operative word when it comes to passing
credentials as well.

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"Rich Grise" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

1. People who don't want to buy CAL's from micros~1 just so they can
authenticate to a network.

2. People who want to store their documents on a network server
instead of local disks.

3. People who want to share network printers.

"Billy O'Connor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> "Rich Grise" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
> 1. People who don't want to buy CAL's from micros~1 just so they can
> authenticate to a network.
>
> 2. People who want to store their documents on a network server
> instead of local disks.
>
> 3. People who want to share network printers.

Oh, you're absolutely right, of course; I just thought it was kind of cool,
and kind of a shortcut, and I just did it and it showed up, which to me is
WAY cool; I'm a kinda poke-around-and-see-what-happens kind of guy, which
is probably why it always takes me so long to get a system set up and
configured. I usually break it and have to go back and read the
instructions;
usually by that time I've broken it so bad I have to erase everything
and install again. ;-)

But I'm on the second day without a reboot on Thunderbird! :-)

Cheers!
Rich

"Rich Grise" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> "Billy O'Connor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> "Rich Grise" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>>
>> 1. People who don't want to buy CAL's from micros~1 just so they can
>> authenticate to a network.
>>
>> 2. People who want to store their documents on a network server
>> instead of local disks.
>>
>> 3. People who want to share network printers.
>
> Oh, you're absolutely right, of course; I just thought it was kind of cool,
> and kind of a shortcut, and I just did it and it showed up, which to me is
> WAY cool; I'm a kinda poke-around-and-see-what-happens kind of guy, which
> is probably why it always takes me so long to get a system set up and
> configured. I usually break it and have to go back and read the
> instructions;
> usually by that time I've broken it so bad I have to erase everything
> and install again. ;-)
>
> But I'm on the second day without a reboot on Thunderbird! :-)

Quite right, I don't mean to diminish the utility of this Thunderbird
feature, it's terrific. In fact, if I'm not using samba on a certain
box, I sure don't want to install it just to move some files around.

Billy O'Connor wrote:

> "Rich Grise" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
>> "Billy O'Connor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> "Rich Grise" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>>>
>>> 1. People who don't want to buy CAL's from micros~1 just so they can
>>> authenticate to a network.
>>>
>>> 2. People who want to store their documents on a network server
>>> instead of local disks.
>>>
>>> 3. People who want to share network printers.
>>
>> Oh, you're absolutely right, of course; I just thought it was kind of
>> cool, and kind of a shortcut, and I just did it and it showed up, which
>> to me is WAY cool; I'm a kinda poke-around-and-see-what-happens kind of
>> guy, which is probably why it always takes me so long to get a system set
>> up and configured. I usually break it and have to go back and read the
>> instructions;
>> usually by that time I've broken it so bad I have to erase everything
>> and install again. ;-)
>>
>> But I'm on the second day without a reboot on Thunderbird! :-)
>
> Quite right, I don't mean to diminish the utility of this Thunderbird
> feature, it's terrific. In fact, if I'm not using samba on a certain
> box, I sure don't want to install it just to move some files around.
>

From last paragraph, looks like you kinda misunderstood

thunderbird is a network computer. ftp://thunderbird is a way in various
utilities to access the ftp server on the computer called thunderbird, so
number 1/2 both are irrelevant, and there are other ways of sharing network
printers. Even windows can use lpr with "TCP/IP Services" (not part of the
windows services for unix pack, but included with windows since 95 i think.

"Rich Grise" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bUp_b.24243$(E-Mail Removed)...

> Oh, you're absolutely right, of course; I just thought it was kind of
cool,
> and kind of a shortcut, and I just did it and it showed up, which to me is
> WAY cool;

If you just want to copy files around, download a copy of the
free winscp program. It gives you a GUI drag-n-drop with
views of both local and remote directories and all it needs
is sshd on the other end.

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Billy O'Connor wrote:

> "Rich Grise" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>
> 3. People who want to share network printers.

Actually with cups and w2k/xp/w2k3 you can avoid samba completely

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"Rich Grise" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<bUp_b.24243$(E-Mail Removed)>. ..
> "Billy O'Connor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > "Rich Grise" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> >
> > 1. People who don't want to buy CAL's from micros~1 just so they can
> > authenticate to a network.
> >
> > 2. People who want to store their documents on a network server
> > instead of local disks.
> >
> > 3. People who want to share network printers.
>
> Oh, you're absolutely right, of course; I just thought it was kind of cool,
> and kind of a shortcut, and I just did it and it showed up, which to me is
> WAY cool; I'm a kinda poke-around-and-see-what-happens kind of guy, which
> is probably why it always takes me so long to get a system set up and
> configured. I usually break it and have to go back and read the
> instructions;
> usually by that time I've broken it so bad I have to erase everything
> and install again. ;-)
>
ftp browing in exploror is damn slow to anything
really and it always gives me problems

On 2004-02-24, Les Mikesell <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> If you just want to copy files around, download a copy of the
> free winscp program. It gives you a GUI drag-n-drop with
> views of both local and remote directories and all it needs
> is sshd on the other end.

I was gonna say you can also dwnld SSH's M$ client. But, after just checking
their website I notice they have just recently changed their product name
(SSH Tectia) and have changed the ssh 4.0 client from a full featured
non-commercial version to a 30-day demoware. Too bad. Guess you'll hafta
go with winscp. Hopefully, it's been updated. I had update my M$ SSH client
just a couple weeks ago (to 4.0) because of the upgrade of openssh in slack
9.1.

nb