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Steve [Gentoo] wrote: |
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> I was wondering if others have tackled this before me? |
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> I only have remote SSH access to my Gentoo box (everything else is fire |
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> walled) and I use this to map ports on my client machine to |
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> corresponding ports on my server machine - so, for example, I can access |
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> IMAP; SMTP, X applications etc. on the Gentoo server remotely. My |
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> remote client is WinXP, and I use Cygwin OpenSSH. Owing to low |
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> bandwidth. While Xwindows is usable it is very slow - command line |
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> interaction without X is acceptable for most tasks but imposes a very |
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> restrictive interface. If possible I would like to be able to edit |
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> (relatively small) configuration files remotely in a text editor running |
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> under windows. |
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> What would be the easiest way to somehow "map" a network drive on my |
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> Gentoo server from Windows given that I need to tunnel over SSH? |
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Filezilla is an ftp client that supports file transfer over ssh: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ |
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For remote X you should use nx (emerge nxserver-freenx) or vnc (emerge tightvnc). |
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To map a network drive, you should probably tunnel samba through ssh. Google for "samba tunnel putty". |
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Zac |
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