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Steve [Gentoo] wrote: |
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> Thanks for the many suggestions... Lots of interesting ideas and |
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> different perspectives. |
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> Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> Filezilla is an ftp client that supports file transfer over ssh: |
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>> http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ |
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> I'll give that a look - it's not really what I was after - while I |
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> suppose I wasn't really clear about my intentions, I really wanted |
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> FS-like access to enable me not only to edit text files, but also to use |
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> visual differencing tools etc. I'm suspecting that this wouldn't be |
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> supported using an ftp-like approach. |
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>> For remote X you should use nx (emerge nxserver-freenx) or vnc (emerge |
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>> tightvnc). |
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> That's new to me - looks very interesting... I'm guessing I'd need to |
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> get this working under cygwin for my XP client... Anything which |
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> improves the performance of remote X sessions would be very useful. |
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There are native win32 clients (no cygwin required) for both. The tightvnc client is gpl. The nx client that I know of is commercial software but it's a freely downloadable from nomachine.com. |
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