Michael Grant wrote:
Maybe I could mount the disk on the server using samba?

samba over an unsecured link will be fairly difficult to
(safely) implement.

based on your situation, my suggestion is for your friend to
build the website locally and then use scp/sftp to transfer
the content directory to your remote web server.  this way,
only 22/ssh is open on the web server, along with 80/http and
443/https as needed by apache.

here is one of the more popular windows-based SCP/SFTP clients:
http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
http://winscp.net/eng/docs/introduction

with this tool, your web author can drag and drop the content
directory onto the destination directory scp/sftp window for
your server.

n.b.
you could get a bit more complicated by using a revision control
system (e.g. CVS) or by using rsync tunneled through ssh.
http://rsync.samba.org/
http://rsync.samba.org/features.html

regards,
jim


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