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

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com>]

Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
> I was wondering if others have tackled this before me?
> 
> I only have remote SSH access to my Gentoo box (everything else is fire
> walled) and I use this to map ports on my client machine to
> corresponding ports on my server machine - so, for example, I can access
> IMAP; SMTP, X applications etc. on the Gentoo server remotely.  My
> remote client is WinXP, and I use Cygwin OpenSSH.  Owing to low
> bandwidth. While Xwindows is usable it is very slow - command line
> interaction without X is acceptable for most tasks but imposes a very
> restrictive interface.  If possible I would like to be able to edit
> (relatively small) configuration files remotely in a text editor running
> under windows.
> 
> What would be the easiest way to somehow "map" a network drive on my
> Gentoo server from Windows given that I need to tunnel over SSH?
> 
> 
> 

Filezilla is an ftp client that supports file transfer over ssh: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

For remote X you should use nx (emerge nxserver-freenx) or vnc (emerge tightvnc).

To map a network drive, you should probably tunnel samba through ssh.  Google for "samba tunnel putty".

Zac
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