Re: move NMR data from SG O2 to PC or Mac

Charles Amass (camass@sophia.smith.edu)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 09:46:07 -0500 (EST)

dear frank,
i know tufts university is using a program SecureCRT on their unix system
which allows for encrypted passwords with telnet.they also offer
absoluteFTP which is similarly protected, though i have not used it. try
www.vandyke.com. i don't know if they support sgi's.
charles amass
smith college

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999 bob.zinn@chemserv.chem.lsu.edu wrote:

>
> Frank,
>
> It is unlikely that a virus that targets a Win PC or a MAC would
> attack a Unix machine, so I don't think you need to worry about that.
>
> Security of the unix machine from hackers is another matter. As a
> matter of principle, accounts that use FTP or telnet (both protocols
> that sends passwords unencrypted...and thus vulnerable to capture)
> should be restricted as to what they can do on your machine.
>
> -bz-
>
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: move NMR data from SG O2 to PC or Mac
> Author: Frank Zhou at New-chem
> Date: 12/07/1999 14:24
>
>
> Dear AMMRL's:
>
> We have about 60 NMR users on one of our Bruker instruments; the number will be
> more than 80 next year. The hard drive on our SG O2 is only 4 GB (about 40% was
> left after installing IRIX 6.5 and XWINNMR 2.6). The department may not spend
> 1,800 for an 18 GB hard drive. Even if we can buy a big hard drive it will be
> full very soon again.
>
> I am going to ask NMR users to move their data to their own PC or Macintosh
> because their hard drive can be more than 10 GB. The followings are what I am
> going to ask them to do:
>
> (1) Telnet to our SG O2 from their PC or Macintosh, go to their data directory
> and tar their files.
>
> (2) Use Anarchi (Macintosh users) or CuteFTP (PC users) ftp our SG O2 and move
> the tar files to their computers. Delete their tar files and original data in
> our SG O2.
>
> (3) When they want to check their data again, they can use Anarchi or CuteFTP
> put their tar files back to our O2 for a very short time.
>
> How do you think about this? Do you have a better and cheaper way? Should I
> worry about virus in their PC and Macintosh?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Frank
>
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> Zhe (Frank) Zhou, Ph.D.
> NMR Facility Manager
> Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University
> 232 Choppin Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1804, USA
>
> Email: frank.zhou@chem.lsu.edu
> Office: (225)-388-3460, Lab: (225)-388-3373/(225)-388-3597
> Departmental Fax: (225)-388-3458
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