[Coco] CCASM for Linux - and remote desktop

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 23 July 2007, Manny wrote:
>Roger Taylor wrote:
>>> Sweet. Glad to see that a VNC server / client was the right way to go
>>> for you. Now you just need to setup a local FTP / Apache server to
>>> help with the transfer of files. :)
>>
>> Manny, I've been sitting here an hour trying to find any built-in ftp
>> servers in the Fedora Core 6 distro I have.  Why in the world these
>> tools are not in the start menus is way beyond me.  That's my big pet
>> peeve right now, how Red Hat 6 had so much in the menus, but FC appears
>> to have trimmed a lot out.
>
>Would anyone that runs Fedora be able to help out here? I would like to
>see him run ProFTPd. I'm sure there is a package for it because I used
>to run it when I ran RedHat 6.x.

I just installed it on an FC6 system because I was curious. From the manpage:

      Full documentation on ProFTPD, including configuration and FAQs, is 
available at http://www.proftpd.org/

       For help/support, try the ProFTPD mailing lists, detailed on 
http://www.proftpd.org/lists.html

       Report bugs at http://bugs.proftpd.org/

>Roger the big difference between the menu systems in RedHat 6 and Fedora
>6 is the fact that RedHat 6 ran Gnome 1.x (Maybe even something earlier
>like 0.9x.) and Fedora runs Gnome 2.16. BIG difference, as Gnome 1.x
>always gave more options to the user, whereas Gnome 2.x doesn't.

Which is why I like kde instead of gnome, its very configurable.

>> Anyway, another problem is that the RPM installer thingy is refusing to
>> install RPM packages on a big FC6 archivr web site.  Clicking on the
>> files brings up the installer wizard, followed by "cannot install
>> package..." bla bla.  NOW I'm thinking I need to update the package
>> installer, but jeez, if it won't update itself, then this seems like a
>> trap unless the magic will be from the "yum" command issued manually?

Start with "yum install smart".  Smart installed proftpd here in about 30 
seconds just now.  But its not configured to be run yet, see the manpages I 
snipped a bit of above.

>Just a sanity check, you are running 'yum' or the package manager as a
>superuser, right?

If not, he should be.

>> If I can set up the FTP server I can transfer files back and forth
>> between the two computers through my network, naturally, but the beauty
>> is doing it all and seeing it all from the Vista computer.  This is
>> truly almost like having Linux and Windows on one computer.
>
>If worse comes to worse, you can always find an FTP solution for your
>Windows box, and have the Linux box login to it's FTP server.
>
>-M.
>
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