On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 17:45:17 +0100, 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-remote-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.

ok if you cant install anything on your machine as well as the server
then I think you are (if you will excuse the technical term) stuffed



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