[TAG] Jim, HELP needed, 5-minute solution needed by computer industry

[Paul Sephton]

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 01:10 -0400, Aviongoo Sales wrote:
> Jim,
>  
> I'm looking for a "simple" client server solution.  I just want to
> upload files from my PC to my server under program control.
>  
> The client is Windows XP and the server is Linux.
>  
> I was recently forced to write a VB application to collect files on
> the Windows PC.  Now, I need to upload the files to my Linux server.
> I usually use FileZilla, however, there is no easy accepted way to
> automate the queue building process in Filezilla, therefore manual
> intervention is still required.
>  
> I need to get rid of all manual intervention.
>  
> My old PHP applications had a custom server to server file transfer
> implemented.  So, I can use that solution on the server if the client
> were cooperative.  I setup up an Apache server on the PC client but
> dynamic DNS is no longer allowed by my ISP (as far as I can
> determine).
>  
> So, I started looking for a simple custom program solution.  VB.NET
> was my first choice since I can reuse alot of my recently
> developed code.
>  
> I've looked for days (weeks) now and tried 20 or so pieces of code
> that claimed to allow client to server file transfer.  None have
> worked so far.
>  
> So, the challenge is this - come up with a solution (preferably PHP on
> Linux and VB.NET on Windows) that a programmer can implement in five
> minutes that will upload a file from the VB.NET Windows client machine
> to the PHP Linux server machine.  I just want to copy the code and
> have it work.  I can't believe it's that hard!!!!
>  
> If you get something to work and document it well, I've got to believe
> millions of folks will be viewing your result.  The various search
> terms I use in Google to try to discover a solution indicate millions
> are looking!
>  
> Thanks,
> Bill

I can't help thinking this is a bit of a troll.

There are several solutions, but the easiest that comes to mind is to
use SAMBA as the server, and simply copy the file.

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