GUI file transfer vi SSH
I have a situation where I need to allow a group of non-technical users to be able to browse/copy/retrieve arbitrary files to and from a reasonably secure remote server. I am trying reaaly hard not to have to put an FTP server on the machine, and SSH/SCP is my preferred technology. This is no problem for the users who will be doing the job from Windows boxes - WinSCP does the job nicely. However a couple of users need to do this from linux boxes, but I can't find a gui front end to do the job. Basically it has to be as simple as a Windows Explorer/Konquerer interface. Any ideas? -- Phil Driscoll
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Phil Driscoll wrote:
I have a situation where I need to allow a group of non-technical users to be able to browse/copy/retrieve arbitrary files to and from a reasonably secure remote server. I am trying reaaly hard not to have to put an FTP server on the machine, and SSH/SCP is my preferred technology. This is no problem for the users who will be doing the job from Windows boxes - WinSCP does the job nicely. However a couple of users need to do this from linux boxes, but I can't find a gui front end to do the job. Basically it has to be as simple as a Windows Explorer/Konquerer interface.
Tunnel an NFS connection over SSH? Write a kio module so that all KDE applications can just use "scp://" as yet another protocol? (This latter may already exist - I haven't looked into it). Michael
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 23:48, Michael Brown wrote:
Tunnel an NFS connection over SSH?
A possibility, but I'm trying to run as little as I can on the server to minimise potential security problems so I'd rather avoid NFS if I can.
Write a kio module so that all KDE applications can just use "scp://" as yet another protocol? (This latter may already exist - I haven't looked into it).
I've looked pretty hard for this and found one email from a chap who said that he would write one about 6 months ago. He's not yet replied to my email on the subject, and if he hasn't done it then I might look into this as it seems like something which would be of widespread use. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll
Phil Driscoll wrote:
I've looked pretty hard for this and found one email from a chap who said that he would write one about 6 months ago. He's not yet replied to my email on the subject, and if he hasn't done it then I might look into this as it seems like something which would be of widespread use.
You could always ask on the kde-devel@kde.org mailing list if there is any interest with anybody else, and perhaps collaborate with somebody else if there is. -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk http://www.chrishowells.co.uk
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