On 11/04/17 17:45, Mike Fleming wrote:
> In article , The Natural Philosopher
>  writes:
>
>> On 11/04/17 08:06, Mike Fleming wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Please LISTEN
>>
>> Instead of blindly refusing to understand the point I was making.
>> How are you accessing this box?
>>
>> IF you have access via ssh, its almost certain sftp already exists by
>> default and will work. You don't need to install anything
>
> OK, I see that now.
>
>>>> IN most cases installing the sshd, will also enable default sftp services.
>>>
>>> Can't install. See above.
>>
>> HOW THEN ARE YTOU ACCESSING THIS MACHINE AT ALL? serial console? File
>> sharing don't work over that.
>>
>> TELNET. I dont believe it. Not in 2017.
>
> Terminal emulator over ssh. The terminal emulator does not offer FTP.
> The only ftp client on the Windows machine is ftp. I can sftp into the
> AIX box from another AIX box.
>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>> Stop being a total arsehole and LISTEN
>
> I can't install a sshfs client. I can't install an sftp client. I
> can't install anything on the WIndows box so I'm stuck with the
> terminal emulator supplied, which doesn't support SFTP, or the Windows
> ftp client, which doesn't support SFTP.
>
You cant install anything on a windows box?

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/06/windows-sftp-scp-clients

Why not? Why cant you ask for it to be installed?

So its not even your CLIENT machine?

And its not even LINUX?

And its not a raspberry Pi?


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