In article , The Natural Philosopher
 writes:

> On 08/04/17 10:37, Mike Fleming wrote:
> > In article , The Natural Philosopher
> >  writes:
> >
> >> On 08/04/17 09:50, Mike Fleming wrote:
> >>> In article , Martin Gregorie
> >>>  writes:
> >>>
> >>>> On Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:20:18 +0100, Mike Fleming wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Sadly for me, vi is my only option - can't access our AIX box other
than
> >>>>> through a terminal emulator and there's no NFS/Samba shares on it. At
my
> >>>>> PPoE, I was able to map straight onto a share and used Textpad to edit
> >>>>> files, which was a lot quicker way to work for me than using vi.
> >>>>>
> >>>> I don't know AIX at all, so question: does it support SSH and/or FTP? If
> >>>> so, it might be a pain, but you could at least suck files files back to
> >>>> you local box to do large and/or multi-file extensive edits of the type
> >>>> that involve moving large chunks of text between files.
> >>>
> >>> It's a Unix variant. It supports them. It supports shares as well.
> >>> However, I'd be in trouble if I started trying to set up shares or
> >>> running an FTP daemon. If was good enough 25 years ago, it's good
> >>> enough now.
> >>
> >> http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=main.samba
> >>
> >> AIX will run NFS, samba, sshd, and/or ftpd.
> >
> > Correct. As I said above. But (a) I don't have root access and (b) I
> > would quite like to keep this job, which perhaps I didn't make clear
> > enough, so I shan't be trying to set any of them up.
> >
> How are you accessing it at all? If you are using ssh, then its 99%
> certain that sftp will work, and you have all you need to 'mount'
> filesystems that you are able to access anyway.

Can't run ftpd. Can't install anything. No root privilege, all of
which I've said above.

> IN most cases installing the sshd, will also enable default sftp services.

Can't install. See above.

> Client wise,  this is pretty much it
>
>
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remo
te-file-systems-over-ssh

Can't install. See above.

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Mike Fleming

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