[PLUG] [Retitled for clarity] File sharing over a two node LAN

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Mon Aug 12 20:12:41 UTC 2019


Unless there is some magical out-of-band negotiation where both sides
magically agree on what is about to happen, one side is going to make a
request and the other side is going to satisfy that request. I suppose both
sides could just broadcast their entire local content in some kind of a
loop and the other side just collects the part they care about.

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 1:05 PM Tyrell Jentink <tyrell at jentink.net> wrote:

> I would argue that Morse code also has something resembling a Client and a
> Server... One client, maybe Carson City, NV says "Chicago, I have Nevada's
> State Constitution, can you forward to Washington, DC?" Chicago's telegraph
> operator cries a small tear, then starts copying. Carson City is the client
> and Chicago is the server. Then, Chicago says "Hey, Washington, DC... Hope
> your sitting down, here comes the longest telegram in history..." And then
> Chicago is the client, and Washington DC is the server. Then that telegraph
> Operator sends his copy over to President Lincoln, and Nevada becomes a
> state.
>
> I'm really not sure in which way one EVER gets away from one node being a
> server and another being a client...
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 12:51 Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
> wrote:
>
> > If the "secure" part of scp is bothering you, Richard, you can use rcp
> > instead. But, really it's all the same thing and the normal way of
> copying
> > files over a network for the last couple decades. You are *always* going
> to
> > request that a copy happen from one side. In the scp/rcp context, that
> side
> > going to be the "client", and the automated software that responds to
> that
> > request on the other side will be the "server", but the server might be
> > receiving the file or sending it.  Unless you hire some morse operators
> to
> > send data back and forth, that's probably about as serverless as you are
> > going to get.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:37 PM Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 8/12/19 11:43 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > >
> > > > My post declared SERVER/CLIENT  relationships are [expletives deleted
> > ;]
> > >
> > > And I bet your desktop is running an X *server*.  Oh, the horrors!
> > >
> > > If you really want to compute like it's 1975, there's always uucp, but
> I
> > > think you would be much better served (pun intended) by learning how to
> > > use scp or nfs/samba.
> > >
> > >
> > > galen
> > > --
> > > Galen Seitz
> > > galens at seitzassoc.com
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