From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

John Beckett wrote:
> Randall Parker
>

> wrote in message news::
>> Can Linux to file sharing where it makes a share available to Windows?
>
> Yes - Google samba (I don't know much about it).
>
> I will mention that recently I saw a suggestion to use the shareware
> WebDrive. You configure SFTP (part of SSH2; like FTP but secure) on the
> Linux box. You run WebDrive on the Windows box - it makes the SFTP
> connection look like a network drive.
>
> John
>


On my linux boxes & with KDE I prefer using fish. It's the file share,
copy etc which works via ssh.

in kde simply type fish://machinename

Gets round all the having to set up smb shares etc. & it's much more
secure as the only port which needs to be open is ssh.

Adam

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