Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

[Jose Gonzalez Gomez <jgonzalez.openinput@gmail.com>]

2005/7/18, Steve [Gentoo] <gentoo_steve@shic.co.uk>:
> Thanks for the many suggestions...  Lots of interesting ideas and
> different perspectives.
> 
> Zac Medico wrote:
> 
> >Filezilla is an ftp client that supports file transfer over ssh: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
> >
> >
> I'll give that a look - it's not really what I was after - while I
> suppose I wasn't really clear about my intentions, I really wanted
> FS-like access to enable me not only to edit text files, but also to use
> visual differencing tools etc.  I'm suspecting that this wouldn't be
> supported using an ftp-like approach.
> 
> >For remote X you should use nx (emerge nxserver-freenx) or vnc (emerge tightvnc).
> >
> >
> That's new to me - looks very interesting...  I'm guessing I'd need to
> get this working under cygwin for my XP client...  Anything which
> improves the performance of remote X sessions would be very useful.
> 
> >To map a network drive, you should probably tunnel samba through ssh.  Google for "samba tunnel putty".
> >
> >
> This is exactly what I wanted to know. I hadn't thought of googling with
> "putty" as I'm using OpenSSH on both client and server - but the
> techniques look the same.
> 
> Steve
> 
I'm surprised nobody mentioned WinSCP... definitely worth a try:

http://winscp.net/

And of course, it's GPLed.

Best regards
Jose

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