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 1DuSPh-00071G-BQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:59:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6I9vrhv015603; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:57:53 GMT Received: from mail.shic.lan (adsl.195-248-105-109.dial.hot.broadband.adsl.broadbandonly.co.uk [195.248.105.109]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6I9rqNN009048 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:53:52 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.shic.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72B95716B1 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:54:26 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42DB7C5D.2040108@shic.co.uk> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:54:37 +0100 From: "Steve [Gentoo]" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions? References: <42D7D168.1000708@shic.co.uk> <1121473251.6824.5.camel@rattus.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1121473251.6824.5.camel@rattus.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e05f621b-33ed-4395-acdc-1d64e4581c6a X-Archives-Hash: 3012c75fe218a49db38be342ea365d4e 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list