With the exception that some ftp implementations, especially on Win systems, are flawed, this is correct. ftp is ftp, whatever os is hosting it. Luke Davis writes: > From: Luke Davis <ldavis at shellworld.net> > > Ann > > I have personally used Linux to access Windows FTP servers. It works > fine, contrary to your statements below. Most of the rest of your message > is correct, but when something talks FTP over TCP/IP, it talks FTP. > > Am I totally missing the boat here? > > Luke > > On Sat, 3 May 2003, Ann Parsons wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Actually Saqib, if you wanted to really understand the Elba and how it > > works on a network, think of it as a Linux box, then you will > > understand. A linux box, unless you are using Samba, can not exchange > > files with a Windows one using FTP. On the other hand, the Windows > > box can FTP to the Linux box with no trouble. Why, because the Linux > > box understands and can read communication From Windows to it. > > Windows, on the other hand, can not read communication via FTP from a > > Linux box. Windows doesn't recognize Linux at all! If, for example, > > you have a Linux and Windows computer, i.e. a dual boot system, you > > can mount the Windows partition/disk on the Linux side no trouble. > > You can come and go within the windows environment, see all the files, > > read them, and write to them, even. On the other hand, Windows is > > incapable of recognizing a linux partition. As far as Billy-Boy is > > concerned, his OS is egocentric and will remain so. That is why your > > Elba can not talk to your PC. It isn't that the Elba is illiterate or > > not bilingual, it's that your PC is! Your PC, unless it is a Linux > > box, is, as I have said, egocentric, monolingual, and parochial. It > > don't wanna talk to nobody who's different or who speaks funny or who > > dresses funny or who uses a slash instead of a backslash. I mean > > *really* that is the end of uncooth, according to the high society of > > Windowsdom. Actually, if it ain careful, it's going to trip over its > > feet if it keeps its nose in the air like that, Saqib! It's *not* the > > Elba's fault! > > > > On the other hand, iffin you want to talk to a Linux box with it, you > > can talk either direction. Both Linux boxes can talk to each other > > just peachy keen and wonderful > > > > Now I admit that five pounds is rather heavy, but shoot for the > > convenience... Only thing it lacks and not for long, is GPS. > > > > Ann P. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
