conect to osx darwin

davidleroux1 · 10-24-2004, 05:32 PM

I need a good gui to run on my mandrake 10 to conect to a apple server running osx darwin. I just want to be able to ftp files to my home computer from the server. I need some thing simple because I all I know about the server is a authorized user account and one starting directory.
I know some about linux but not a whole lot about ftp.
thanks

opjose · 10-24-2004, 07:07 PM

"A Graphical User Interface, doth not an FTP client make."

To be able to FTP files the way you are talking about, the Apple System must be running an FTP server which you can log into.

Of course this is not strickly needed if the Apple server is running say NFS and both machines are on the same network.

davidleroux1 · 10-24-2004, 09:44 PM

i used a program listed as telnet ssh and rlogin. i chose ssh and conected with a password. i could see the directory that i want to transfer files from
that directory shows up as olentangy river (orw)
I am unable to go to that directory and when I include the (orw) part of the directory name i get an error

syntax error near unexpected tokin '('

some times I try to change to a directory and my command line prompt changes to
> that and i can not list any files

opjose · 10-24-2004, 10:31 PM

It sounds like you are trying to input a character which is "reserved" or interpreted by the shell in other ways.

For such characters you need to "escape" it's usual function by preceeding the character with a backslash.

Let's say you want to change to a directory called "My Documents".

Your first impulse would be to type

cd My Documents

but oops this doesn't work.

So instead type in

cd My\ Documents

the Backslash (\) "escapes" the following character, which in this case is a space.

davidleroux1 · 10-25-2004, 08:45 AM

I tried the \ and ignores in the OLENTANGY\ RIVER
but when I try OLENTANGY\ RIVER\ (ORW)
I get the same error when the interpreter reads the (

opjose · 10-25-2004, 10:16 AM

You need to escape that character as well.

e.g.

OLENTANGY\ RIVER\ \(ORW\)

davidleroux1 · 10-25-2004, 02:53 PM

I can get to the directory.

can you point me in the direction of a help file that will tell me how to copy files to my home computer.

and maybe just the basic comands how to copy.

but really i would like a gui so that i can select files then click on a button to transfer

opjose · 10-25-2004, 04:12 PM

SSH, telnet and rlogin are not file transfer programs of themselves.

The Mac has to be running something which allows it to "serve" files (transfer them to your computer).

This can be, Samba, NFS, FTP, HTTP, etc.

The first question is what file serving (I don't want to say sharing since this is often confused with PTP) services are running on the mac?