From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DubB5-0006to-Nm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:21:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6IJJenO029520; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:19:40 GMT Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6IJG4P1005145 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:16:05 GMT Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id c16so572032rne for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:16:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mHn+3qlKHCkcZn2P/9x7vF7JtmMuy4cXTUsOZt3iXiv0bWtzxrhBa7Go73j+eGp0vZA2UICL5i+yIYHRw3QCBp82smlgwrFbn/95aecgvEGC3QRQjHPtgSRyjD7IU7yEzFd8oI3mdxiwPPjG6RMKMosf8j0fCCNxMbV5eM6RnaU= Received: by 10.38.76.80 with SMTP id y80mr2110914rna; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.10.46 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <306bf0105071812164544009d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:16:52 +0100 From: Jose Gonzalez Gomez To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions? In-Reply-To: <42DB7C5D.2040108@shic.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <42D7D168.1000708@shic.co.uk> <1121473251.6824.5.camel@rattus.localdomain> <42DB7C5D.2040108@shic.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6IJG4P1005145 X-Archives-Salt: c05d78b9-18cd-4ca1-a6f8-305eee625526 X-Archives-Hash: 384aa0c0ecc4a1ab74496ccca9655e4c 2005/7/18, Steve [Gentoo] : > 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list