Zanziblog

Nasty comms problems, which I’ve just about sorted out now. It turns out that the only reliable communication between the Linux machines and my Windows machine is the XAMPP server that I’ve set up on my own machine! Accessing my machine as a server across the networks sometimes works, but more often not, FTP does not work, nor does Linux to Linux networking. Remote shell copy is not set up and, when I try, gives a bunch of errors. I finally set up a directory on my server for them to download files from, renaming files with PHP extension so they would not be interpreted on the server. Uploading from the Linux machines was more of a problem, and I finally ended up writhing my own PHP upload script, which works perfectly. Read more…