Comments on: simply copy from one pc to another

By: newbie80

newbie80 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:35:25 +0000

thank you very much Troy

I really appreciate your kind help

this works.

By: Troy Tate

Troy Tate — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:39:22 +0000

ftp client is typically part of the operating system. In Windows, click Start, Run, CMD

Type:

ftp server-name

Where server-name is the name of the server you want to connect to, for example:

ftp servername (or serverIP)

Next you will be prompted for your username and password.

Here is a list of the commands you will routinely use in the FTP program:
put filename – Upload a file to the server
get filename – Download a file from the server
mput filename – Put multiple files on the server
mget filename – Get multiple files on the server
ls – Get a list of files in the current directory
cd – Change directory
quit – Ends your ftp session

By: mshen

mshen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:27:04 +0000

That is two backslashes. \\computername

By: mshen

mshen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:26:00 +0000

OK… When you RDP into the server, you should be able to whack into the machine that you want. i.e. Start -> Run -> \ComputerNamec$.

That is assuming you have administrative priviledges on the remote machine.

By: newbie80

newbie80 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:57:52 +0000

TroyTate

I did not get you.

with the filezilla server installed on my server, how can I upload files from any other client pc without installing an ftp client ?

By: Troy Tate

Troy Tate — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:40:45 +0000

The filezilla option does not require on every client, just the server where the clients need to transfer files to for backup purposes. In fact, the push of the log files can be scheduled events using batch files from the clients to the FTP server and permit you to do other things since the task would be automated.

By: newbie80

newbie80 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:10:52 +0000

thank you for your efforts guys.

but in all the 3 proposed solutions, it would require installing an agent software on the client….

This is of course easy to do… yet, such a solution would not be feasible when dealing with thousands of customers, each having his or her PC or terminal …. I could not just install this agent for every customer whom I need to get log files from….

By: newbie80

newbie80 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:08:28 +0000

using non-secure ways of transmitting the files such as uploading to gmail or to other file-upload utilities is not a good idea as those are supposed to be sensitive log files…..

By: itcogent

itcogent — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:16:56 +0000

If you want to access your drives to the target machine, you should be connected directly to the target machine, not through another machine. If you want to transfer some big files you can use online shared sites like dropbox, 4shared etc