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IP Unattended File Transfer
Thanks a lot , dilettante.Your solution cant be simplier and it's the one I'm implementing right now.Like you said, it's effective and very inexpensive (free!). How can somebody charge big bucks for something that simple? Unbeliavable.I'm glad I asked. I'll be recomending this great forum to... -
IP Unattended File Transfer
Good point Dilettante. Your solution looks extremely simple yet useful.Where may I get more info about those FTP switches? And are they used at the Windows Scheduler side? I didnt understand the last part of your reply when you say 'download a fresh copy over itself'.Are you overwritting your... -
IP Unattended File Transfer
Wow!! WyBNormal, You can't imagine how grateful I'm with your extraordinary help. THANK YOU, VERY, VERY MUCH!!!! -
ISP Assigned Static IP
Well, you make me feel a lot better now. Not only for you clear explanation but also for the pricing issue. Thanks a lot. I really appreciate your help. -
IP Unattended File Transfer
DropShute Enterprise is a no-no since you have to pay $1195 per location (we have 3 locations) and with that money I can buy 2 powerful PC with W2K-Sever on it. I think that I'd have to learn how to set up FTP/SSL as wybnormal wisely suggested. Is there any place/book that can give me a jump... -
ISP Assigned Static IP
Please bare with me if this is a silly question but.. One of our ISP in another city gave us 5 static IP addresses (with it's respective Gateway, dns, etc.) as a part of the contract, but we are actually using only two of them. The local ISP -which is another company and another city - charges... -
IP Unattended File Transfer
Thanks a million to all who responded. I'm now investigating about FTP/SSL, pgp-net and DropShute Enterprise.The latter looks very promising. John -
IP Unattended File Transfer
Thanks for your prompt answer. First, What SSL means? Also,do I have to setup a FTP in each location?Where can I find information of setting up that protocol? Is it a complicated, time consuming thing to do? When you says ' another webserver' means that I can use the ISP's as it is right now... -
IP Unattended File Transfer
We are actually transfering files at night between two locations using dial-up modems.The program automatically set-up the modem in each location, establish communication, send the required files and hang-up once the whole file(s) are transfered.This most be done every day, very late at night...
