So far I have a Windows 7 ESXi VM dedicated as my 4D server. For security reasons no other servers are running aside from 4D.
Now I'm planning to expose this box to the world via Active 4D. Again for security reasons I'd probably route it through an Apache server running in a Linux VM on the same host but that is another story. For the last few days I'm pulling my hair to find an easy but secure way to access the Active 4D web folder over the internet from my trusty Mac Pro. On my Linux servers I do this with an ftp client using ssh and it works like a charm. So I tried to install WinSSHD but the result wasn't great. A lot of hassle with the wrong terminal environment, dropped connections, wrong permissions although I've navigate only inside my home directory on the Windows box etc. Oh man, how easy are these things on the Linux side. Then I've investigated in ftps servers for Windows. Well, those didn't play well with my ftp client (which does ssh and sftp). I even thought about sharing the Active 4D web folder over NFS to my Linux server and access that over ssh. But had to find, that Windows 7 has no more Unix server services integrated. And installing any 3rd party nfs server on the Windows machine give me headaches. Now I'm thinking about accessing the Windows VM via an SSH tunnel. OK, enough whining. Has anyone a nice working solution to easily access the Active 4D web folder (for development) on Windows from a Mac without opening the Windows machine more than absolutely necessary to the world? Thanks for sharing any tips. Pete _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://list.aparajitaworld.com/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://vasudev.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
