Basic questions

[Jonathan Morton]

>Greetings.
>
>Subject Basic questions
>       Feb 8,  4:08pm, SIRAISI Tomio wrote:
>] I am very interested in VNC.
>] I am a Mac user, but more people are using Windows machines, so that I
>] often have trouble exchanging data with them.
>
>Same as me, but I'm OS/2 user.
>
>] But I have some basic questions.
>] If I access a UNIX or Windows VNC server through my VNC-installed Mac,
>] can I open the server's files?
>
>No.
>
>]Can I copy (or drag-and-drop) the data to my Mac?
>
>No.
>
>See FAQ 54.
>
>VNC extend console (display and keyboard) over network, but
>VNC does not support file transfer.  You need another
>method to share files between another mashines.
>

For basic fie-transfer, you could run an FTP server (NetPresentz from
www.stairways.com) on the Mac and use standard FTP clients from the UNIX
and Wintel machines to transfer the data.  It may still need translaton
after that, but it gets over half the problem.

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