FTP Over Copying Files.

[ray]

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.

 

[Gerry Voras]

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.

 

[Steve Nielsen]

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

Steve

 

[Phil Robyn [MVP]]

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.

WinZip is your friend!

 

[Gerry Voras]

But the 4 layer conversion between OSI theory and defined TCP/IP is real.
And given the case, FTP (a TCP/IP layer 4 API) is going to use layers 1-4 no
matter what. Copy or xcopy will just use just use the API layer, and allow
the network file system to independantly handle the other layers.

If this doesn't satisfiy you, you could build a couple of test machines and
SEE which works better.