Monday, October 30, 2006
ftp client
I work in a distributed computing environment. At any particular time I may use one of the linux machines in my home office, I may login to a machine in San Jose or I may need to login to a machine in Isreal depending on what I'm doing. The machines in San Jose and Israel both use my same username and password but the home directories are not the same, they are unique in each place. Sometimes I will also work from my laptop using VMware for linux. Given these 4 unique filesystems I am forced to spend time moving files back and forth depending on the task at hand.
To do this I often turn to another of the useful toolbars (that is hiden by default) in InnerLoop called the ftp client.
To activate it right click on any of the toolbars to bring up the toolbar list and select ftp client. There is also a toolbar called just ftp, but I don't find this one as useful.
Once the toolbar is open hit the button with the green + sign and then hit Add to setup a new profile. Enter the data to connect to the machine you want to reach and then connect. This profile will be saved (even though I don't see it on the pull-down when I come back next time) and when I come back next time I hit the green + sign again and connect.
Once connected I feel like I want to drag-and-drop files back and forth, but that won't work. The key is to right click the mouse and use the upload and download menu items (depending which side you select file or directories on). You can also use the right click to delete files, rename them, create new directories, and more.
Give it a try next time you need to ftp or use ssh to move data back and forth.
I work in a distributed computing environment. At any particular time I may use one of the linux machines in my home office, I may login to a machine in San Jose or I may need to login to a machine in Isreal depending on what I'm doing. The machines in San Jose and Israel both use my same username and password but the home directories are not the same, they are unique in each place. Sometimes I will also work from my laptop using VMware for linux. Given these 4 unique filesystems I am forced to spend time moving files back and forth depending on the task at hand.
To do this I often turn to another of the useful toolbars (that is hiden by default) in InnerLoop called the ftp client.
To activate it right click on any of the toolbars to bring up the toolbar list and select ftp client. There is also a toolbar called just ftp, but I don't find this one as useful.
Once the toolbar is open hit the button with the green + sign and then hit Add to setup a new profile. Enter the data to connect to the machine you want to reach and then connect. This profile will be saved (even though I don't see it on the pull-down when I come back next time) and when I come back next time I hit the green + sign again and connect.
Once connected I feel like I want to drag-and-drop files back and forth, but that won't work. The key is to right click the mouse and use the upload and download menu items (depending which side you select file or directories on). You can also use the right click to delete files, rename them, create new directories, and more.
Give it a try next time you need to ftp or use ssh to move data back and forth.
# posted by Jason Andrews @ 7:21 PM 
