Q about transfering files...

[TheGreatPoo]

I have about 3 gigs of files that I want to transfer from my office to my home.  Both my office and home have fast internet connections so speed is not a problem.  My workstation at work is on a small network with a Red Hat Linux server.  I do not have any firewall info.  I do not want to put all these files on cd's and bring them home.  Is there any way I can just directly link my computer at home to my workstation at work and download the files over the internet?

Yes, I am serious.  You can mock me all you like (as long as you help me    )

Thanks in advance!  

[TheGreatPoo]

To be a little more specific:   my workstation at work uses Windoze 2000 Pro (I know, I know.  Spare me the lecture, there's nothing I can do about it), and my computer at home is a Mac utilizing OS 9.1.

Thank you.

[Pissed_Macman]

Here's what to do: Get two paper cups and a very long string and attach each end to your computers. It should work fine after that.

[ May 20, 2003: Message edited by: Macman: HAS 1000 POSTS ]

[psyjax]

If your loging in from OS 9 your gonna need DAVe or some kind of similar software...

Why not establish an FTP connection?

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by psyjax: plain 'ol psyjax:
If your loging in from OS 9 your gonna need DAVe or some kind of similar software...

Why not establish an FTP connection?

Because downloading 3GB of _files_ will take a LONG time, even on an extremly fast connection. What I would do is create an archive (hell, maybe even compress--that won't hurt) and ftp it over.

Also, take a look at "rsync"--it's available for OS X and any *nix (not MacOS 9.x and below, though).

Really, there are about a million different ways you can do that...

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by TheGreatPoo: Mac Commando:
I have about 3 gigs of files that I want to transfer from my office to my home.  Both my office and home have fast internet connections so speed is not a problem.  My workstation at work is on a small network with a Red Hat Linux server.  I do not have any firewall info.  I do not want to put all these files on cd's and bring them home.  Is there any way I can just directly link my computer at home to my workstation at work and download the files over the internet?

Yes, I am serious.  You can mock me all you like (as long as you help me     )

Thanks in advance!    

If you had OSX I would recommend SSH.  But since ur stuck on 9, just burn them to CD's

[NM]

Take the home computer to the office and set up an ftp connection.  I assume you have a 100MB connection, so that shouldn't take long.
Or burn them, it will take 4-5CDs (math is not my forte).

[Pissed_Macman]

What about that program called PC2Mac (or something like that)? It's supposed to transfer all your files from Windows to Mac I hear. I can't find it at the Apple website anymore though.

[TheGreatPoo]

Thanks for the replies everyone.  If I seem ignorant, it's because I am.  I have never setup a FTP connection before.  I will have to research that a bit.  The files I have to transfer will work on both Mac and PC.  Most are little video clips that I donwloaded and accumulated in my spare time.  I realize that downloading 3 gigs will take a long time but it is still easier to do that then to take up my bosses time (His computer is the only one in the office with a burner) with burning 6 CD's.

Thanks again for the replies and for reading.  My apologies for the ignorance.  

[flap]

Is your boss not bothered about you using 3gb of his  bandwidth?
Is your workstation at work visible to the internet? The simplest solution would be to take your machine into work.

[TheGreatPoo]

My Boss is not bothered by the bandwidth usage as long as it's not during business hours (which it wouldn't be).

How do I check to see if my workstation is visible to the internet?

Thanks for the reply flap!

[TheQuirk]

Oh geeze. What OS is running on the computer at work? What about the one at home?

[TheQuirk]

Nevermind. Redundant.

[TheGreatPoo]

Update:

I set up CuteFTP on the Windoze workstation and logged into the server.  I then uploaded the all of the files to the server under my login name directory.  Everything was going good.

I get home and open Fetch (a mac FTP client) on my Mac and log onto the server where my files are.  Well, it logges on just fine but there are no files.  There are no directories either.  When I try to type in the destination directory where my files are stored, it gives me an error saying that "No such file or directory."  Why can I see the files at work but not at home?

[flap]

access rights? who are you logging into the ftp server as?