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

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com>]

Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
> 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.
> 

There are native win32 clients (no cygwin required) for both.  The tightvnc client is gpl.  The nx client that I know of is commercial software but it's a freely downloadable from nomachine.com.

Zac

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