[PLUG] Intra-networking inconsistent

wes plug at the-wes.com
Sun Jul 8 19:44:20 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:20 PM, wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm not aware of other protocols to talk to Winders machines. I know
> >> there is/are other protocols for talking to other Linux machines, but I
> >> haven't dug into anything other than what Ubuntu includes as standard.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > all the protocols you can use to connect to other linux hosts are also
> > available on windows. you just have to install the server software.
> > filezilla makes a wonderful FTP server.
> >
>
> Exactly, I am using Samba right now, but this thread spurred me on to
> look at ssh servers for Windows.
> There seem to be a few options  mentioned here
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_SSH_servers
> even some of the commercial ones like WinSSHD are free for single users.
>
> On the linux side you could use SSHFS to mount the Windows directories.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS
>
> Anybody use this type of setup?
>
> Bill
>

I've done it before. it works well enough. I didn't use it often enough to
get it going again after a re-install.

-wes



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