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Use FTP for faster file sharing with Windows
Authored by: Marcot1 on Feb 09, '04 11:29:20AM

If you are trying to transfer files using the windows machine it may be easier to just use IE instead of downloading an FTP client. Windows will interpret a URL formated "ftp://username:password@IPaddress" as wanting to connect to an FTP server. The key is to include the username otherwise it will only attempt to connect anonymously.

I personally have encountered problems finding windows servers to connect but have never noticed a slow down in SMB performance once copying. I routinely use a custom shell script to connect to a SMB server to re-image a hard disk using ASR. To copy/restore a 3+ gig image never takes more than 10-15 minutes on a 10/100bt switched network.



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Use FTP for faster file sharing with Windows
Authored by: hrbrmstr on Feb 09, '04 12:49:07PM

Microsoft's emergency Internet Explorer patch last week removes support for URL's with "@" in the address. It breaks RFC, but it protects them from phishing. So, only use this if you don't plan to update (or haven't already updated).

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Use FTP for faster file sharing with Windows
Authored by: Lectrick on Feb 10, '04 02:19:40AM

That's fsck'ing retarded. Why didn't Microsoft ask the USER if they were sure they wanted to log into an FTP site?

I'm annoyed because I use this feature in IE all the time for FTP'ing...

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