[gentoo-user] Filesystem access to Gentoo from XP over SSH - suggestions?

[Steve [Gentoo]]

I was wondering if others have tackled this before me?

I only have remote SSH access to my Gentoo box (everything else is fire 
walled) and I use this to map ports on my client machine to 
corresponding ports on my server machine - so, for example, I can access 
IMAP; SMTP, X applications etc. on the Gentoo server remotely.  My 
remote client is WinXP, and I use Cygwin OpenSSH.  Owing to low 
bandwidth. While Xwindows is usable it is very slow - command line 
interaction without X is acceptable for most tasks but imposes a very 
restrictive interface.  If possible I would like to be able to edit 
(relatively small) configuration files remotely in a text editor running 
under windows.

What would be the easiest way to somehow "map" a network drive on my 
Gentoo server from Windows given that I need to tunnel over SSH?



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