3/3/2023 0 Comments Winagent tftp client![]() ![]() As I explained in the first post, this is the WEBDAV UNC equivalent of the SharePoint site and the document library called backups. In the screen-shot above, you will notice that the TFTP Server root directory is \\tidemo\tftp\backups. There is a status screen and a configuration screen that allows you to set the TFTP Root directory as shown below. That, combined with natively running as a windows service, makes it the obvious contender to be the SharePoint TFTP server of choice. Unlike its commercial cousin, however, it does not delete files before uploading, and therefore plays nice with SharePoint version control. Like the WinAgents product, it can be run as a service out of the box, but it is not as comprehensive as its commercial competitor in terms of logging, granular security filtering and folder virtualisation. This one is free and also very easy to use. So instead, let’s now turn our attention to the SolarWinds TFTP product. This obviously blows away any potential to use WinAgents TFTP as a SharePoint integrated TFTP server :-(.ĬleverWorkarounds Rating: They probably thought it was a good idea at the time. Each upload is deleting the previous version and uploading a new file. Therefore, there is no version history at all. When you upload a file of the same name, SharePoint treats it as a new file and allocates it a new ID. It is a built-in column and can be made visible by modifying a document library view as shown below.īy deleting the file in SharePoint, that file is now put into the recycle bin. It may on the surface seem no different to simply overwriting a file – but there is a big difference in a SharePoint site.Īll files in a SharePoint document library have a unique ID. When you send a file to a WinAgents TFTP server that already exists, it will delete the original file and then copy the new file to the virtual folder. You would be right, but the latest version is let down by one stupid design flaw. You would think that the above ability to virtualise folders would make this product an obvious choice for front-ending to SharePoint, because it could co-exist with native filesystem, DFS and 3rd party SMB based resources like those provided by samba. Below is the main configuration screen and the screen where multiple locations can be configured. It has a nice GUI, good logging and the ability to set up virtual folders to different underlying locations. It is not free, but buying it won’t exactly break the bank. At the time it was pretty much the only product that would natively run as a Windows service. I’ve used this product several times in the past. As we go, we will get to see the uglier side of WEBDAV. Let’s review their capabilities and cover the issues encountered with each. SolarWinds TFTP Server (Freeware – Registration required)Īnd let’s not forget good old PUMPKIN, just to make one of my CCIE friends, who read the first post and suggested I use it as an alternative, happy (although he forgets that years ago I was the one who told him about Pumpkin in the first place ? ).Now I previously mentioned that I tried three TFTP servers in writing this article and had some problems. SharePoint developers and architects may also find this of interest. Although this article (part 2) focuses on my issues and observations with the Windows WEBDAV client, if you are one of these people who have ‘special’ feelings when you see those pretty blue Cisco boxes like the image above, then you may find some useful content here. This is a technically oriented series of articles for the most part, so for you people who like the governance and finance stuff, you may not get too much out of this one. How many parts it will end up being is anybody’s guess! So, like my branding series, this is going to turn into a multi-part series too, covering some application development, configuration, security and governance issues. In addition, I ended up delving much deeper than I intended. In this article we will delve into this issue in more detail. I then hit a snag in relation to using a Windows Service to do this task. I then used one of several freeware TFTP servers to show how you can have a TFTP server save the captured file into a version enabled document library. To recap my last post, I showed you a little perl script I wrote to get an IOS router or switch to dump its current configuration to a TFTP server. Here I am back again, illustrating some of the interesting possibilities that SharePoint offers for Cisco people. ![]()
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