2005/7/18, Steve [Gentoo] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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
