In article , The Natural Philosopher
 writes:

> 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?

No. Group policy.

> http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/06/windows-sftp-scp-clients
>
> Why not? Why cant you ask for it to be installed?

Not on approved list of software.

> So its not even your CLIENT machine?

Which?

> And its not even LINUX?

No.

> And its not a raspberry Pi?

No. Funnily enough, I never said that it was, in fact all the
necessary information was available pretty much from the start, but
you wanted to parade your knowledge. I was simply bemoaning my current
lot.

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Mike Fleming

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