On Friday 29 April 2005 10:02, Jack wrote:
I'm looking to add a headless server, in some out of the way location to make a webserver (intranet)/ db server. I want to use it for development of websites and database apps on, from my desktop. But, I want the ease of use of being able to read and write files without doing ftp, etc. I'd like to be able to point Quanta/Konquerer at it and have it look like a local filesystem. Is this a Samba project? Or is there another way to accomplish this, while still protecting the system from remote attacks should someone breach the firewall, or having the server inadvertantly expose itself beyond the firewall?
I'm surprised that no one else mentioned this yet:
All KDE apps have KIOSlaves available to them. This means that any WebDAV, FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, LDAP, IMAP/S, SMTP and most importantly SSH URL may appear to a KDE app as a local file system.
So, for instance, you can fire up Kate and type fish://username@<ssh ip address>/home/<username>/file.txt and edit a remote file as though it's local.
Quanta also supports this. So you don't need to configure anything. By having SSH installed you have all you need.