[Tutor] Copying file to multiple machines.

[Empire Down]

I am Sorry, I left out some info. OS is W2K adv Srv and I am admin on all the machines, all the machines are on a LAN, and the target path on all the machines are the same, all going to "all users" start up.

James   

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Empire Down  wrote:

>> I am new to python and am trying to copy a file from my >>machine to 
>> multiple machines on a network (98 machines) I know this >>can be done 
>> simply with a shell script but I have been wanting to learn >>Python and 
>> figured this would be somehting simple I could do, though it >>is 
>>turning out not to be so simple. I have Mark Hammond book.. >>but i 
>>think still need a little assistance.

>You don't mention how you would do it with shell scripts, so I >have no background information to go on. With that in mind, >here comes my zany solution....

>TCP/IP broadcasting/multicasting. On each of the client >machines run a small script that attaches to a socket and >waits for an incoming connection. On your server machine, you >run a script that broadcasts/multicasts the filename followed >by the filecontents. The client then looks at the filename and >dumps the filecontents into the file.

>The client will have to make sure that the connection is >authenticated, and that the filename isn't something >important, like '/etc/passwd'.

>-- 
>Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio@openservices.net>


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