Network embarassment

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Sun May 8 14:31:57 UTC 2005


On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 09:42:32PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Sun, 8 May 2005 08:39 pm, albi at scii.nl wrote:
> > ftp, lftp, and ncftp are ftp-clients
> 
> I am only trying to link two PCs through a hub on the one local network, so I 
> can transfer files between them.  Do I need a full-blown ftp server to 
> achieve this?

If you want to use an FTP client from one machine, you need an FTP
server on the other. (FTP is, of course, not the only option for file
transfer, but you're still going to need *some* kind of server
installed.)

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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