RPC_file_transfer

Remote Procedure Call to transfer file from client to server in the form of argument.

Detail Description

The project aims at Distributed Computation implementation of file transfer using RPC.

I have implemented the project as a part of my college assignemnt. The project helped me work with rpcgen an interface generator pre-compiler.

Objectives Achieved

1. Transferring text document from client to server.
2. Data to be transfered in chunks.
3. Checksum for error handling.

Steps to compile code

1. Check if rpcbind is installed in your linus system using the command $rpcinfo. (Make sure to use a stable version of linux. I tried to compile my code on Ubuntu 20.10 bus was unsuccessful as some rpc header files are not available in the version of ububtu, so I generated a virtual machine with Ubuntu 18.04 for the task)
2. If not installed then install rpcgen with the following script $sudo apt-get install rpcbind.
3. Open the extracted folder in terminal and run following command to generate executable files $make -f Makefile.forward.
4. Now keep the two executables forward_server and forward_client in separate directories.
5. Start server by running the command in one terminal $./forward_sever.
6. In another terminal start instance of client to share file with the command $./forward_client localhost myNewFile.txt (localhost is the current location of server and myNewFile.txt is the name of file to be transfered).