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I'am trying to copy a text file from a Unix system to my pc with
microsoft Web server and I want to automate the process is it possible
to automate the copying of the file to my ftp server? using RCP or any
other command.  Please let me know.
 TIA,
  Cory Brown

Quote:> I'am trying to copy a text file from a Unix system to my pc with
> microsoft Web server and I want to automate the process is it possible
> to automate the copying of the file to my ftp server? using RCP or any
> other command.  Please let me know.
>  TIA,
>   Cory Brown

You may want to simply add nfs or NT file/print services to Unix. Samba is
a non-commercial way to go. Then your PC simply sees the Unix box as a
network share.

We do a lot of rcp from Unix to Unix, but not to PC. I have seen some PC
based remote shell products in packages such as Novell Lan Work Groups Pro,
but these can be expensive.

If security is not a big deal, a batch driven ftp might be nice.

This will work using Windows 95 ftp.

Create a text script file with the following. I use ftp.server.com as an
example. You can also
  use an IP address.

open ftp.server.com
user cory
mypassword
get /home/cory/file
quit

The command to run this is:

        ftp -n -s:script

        where script is the name of the script file above.

You will need some sort of scheduler to automate this. It could be run as a
cgi of of Web pages. You can use your Unix man pages for more info on these
switches. A neat one is the -i to turn of interactive prompting with mget.

Good Luck,

Jake