Special Edition Using® Solaris™ 9

Transferring Files Across Remote Systems

Imagine that a user on the network maintains a set of very important files on a particular system that needs to be transferred over the network to different systems. There may be other situations in which users may want to transfer files to a local server on the network as part of a backup mechanism to maintain a mirror copy of all files on the local system. In all such cases, a user requires a mechanism that provides access to remote systems on the network. File transfer is one of the important reasons for accessing a remote system. There may be other reasons, such as an unattended command execution over the network or monitoring the performance of a remote system. Solaris provides tools that will enable ...