kind of off topic (remote file access with Windows)

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Fri Oct 7 14:34:10 UTC 2005


On 2005-10-07, Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.org> wrote:

> I'm trying to access files on an ubuntu system that's "far away" (i.e. 
> path obstructed by two firewalls and the Internet) I really don't want
> to do the file copy both ways because that's pretty error-prone.  From 
> what I can tell my only solution is webdav but I was hoping for 
> something a little more elegant and easily secured using ssh tunnels. 
> shfs would be great but there's no Windows side filesystem connection. 
> smb and nfs don't tunnel very well as far as I know.
>
> So any ideas?

SMB mounts work fine via ssh tunnels.

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