Re: FTP Over Copying Files.

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From: Steve Nielsen (steve_nielsen_at__blahX3_lincoln.k12.or.us)
Date: 03/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:42:25 -0800

OSI model is theoretical. Please give a real world reason why COPY would
be preferable over FTP on a LAN.

Steve

Gerry Voras wrote:

> Use copy if you are on a physically conencted network and on a domain. FTP
> will bring in several additional layers of the OSI model into play that
> aren't needed here.
>
> "ray" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:370601c4012d$4e50a2c0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have users that need to transfer data from workstation
>>to server, the data is big roughly 200MB - 300MB at a
>>time, at the moment they are copying to a network drive
>>which is slowing everything down.
>>
>>What are the advantages of using ftp rather than copying
>>the data, would this stop any performance issues we are
>>having with the copying of files.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Ray.
>>
>>
>
>
>

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