This is likely going to sound weird. But an idea has been bouncing around in my head and tormenting me. Some terminology as I use it: "desktop" is my local PC and "host" is the remote z/Linux. Now, I connect from my desktop to the host using SSH with reverse tunneling for X access. Not that I run many X programs on the host, but I like gvim vs. normal vim. I mention it only because ssh sets up a reverse tunnel so that the X client on the host can access the X server on my desktop over the encrypted ssh channel. Which means my desktop can be NAT'ed behind a router and the host can still access it.
What I would like to have is a way to mount my desktop's $HOME on the host some way so that host programs can access files on my desktop like they can NFS mounted files on other servers. I hear someone asking "Why do you want to do that?". It's rather theoretical to me, but suppose I'm a "road warrior" developer. I would like to be able to do all my editing locally, without a VPN connection or any other connection to the host. Now, when I do access the host, I need a way to access my local files. Granted, I guess I could rsync or use some other method to copy the changed files from my desktop to the host. But I thought it might be nice to just be able to directly access them. Is this idea completely bogus? My thought was do the major editing "off line". Connect to the host to do compiles and testing. If I were to sync the files on my desktop to the host, any changes I made during testing would need to be synced back to the desktop. If I could compile directly from the source on my desktop, I don't need to sync back. Once I like everything, I could sync to the host repository. This is kind of the reverse of having an NFS mounted $HOME. Instead of my desktop's $HOME being on the host, my host session would have a $HOME type mount on my desktop. Just a weird thought. Likely foolish. 35 years in z/OS and predecessors has done damage <grin>. John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
