[NTLUG:Discuss] Script SCP to Windows 2008 Server

[Michael Barnes]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:
> On 10/12/2011 03:59 PM, Michael Barnes wrote:
>>
>> We have an old Linux FTP server that is long overdue replacement.
>> Unfortunately, our corporate IT folks are replacing it with a Windows
>> 2008 Server box running some kind of Windows FTP server on it.  I've
>> got about 40 shell scripts that send big files to the server every
>> day.  I've been using scp with shared keys so no password is needed
>> and it works great.  Any ideas on what to use that is as easy to set
>> up and doesn't need passwords in the scripts I can get to work with
>> the Windows FTP server?
>
> Does it have to be FTP?  What about using Samba to connect to a Windows file
> share?
>

I'd rather not do that over a public Internet path.  It would have to
be sharing over 30 folders.
The Windows shares would have to be locked down as to what could
access them.  Too much of a security problem.