What I need. What would be great to have is a ssh/sftp file system driver for Windows. Currently to exchange files between my servers running ssh and my primary Windows machine I use WinSCP, and for remote access I use Putty (both programs are free).
What would be even more useful is an ability to mount the filesystem of a remote machine into a drive on Windows. Technically it's possible. Some operations (changing small parts of the file) would probably suck because I don't think the protocol supports the full i/o sementics so the filesystem driver would have to cache the file locally and every change would require writing the whole file out. It would still work great for file copying (and I could use any app I want for that and not be limited by what WinSCP can do) and editing remote files. [Krzysztof Kowalczyk's Weblog]
I'll take a box. In this day and age where everybody KNOWS that you should use ssh and scp instead of telnet and ftp, why is are there no front-end tools that used the former as their back-end as opposed to the latter? The "best" alternative is an ssh tunnel and force the front-end to connect to a fake port on localhost, but not only does that require lots on manual intervention I can't eveny find someone that OFFERS tunneling to mail, ftp, or other servers.
Here's a specific idea for a front-end tool: part 1) Macrobyte offers TLS for Radio and Frontier, the client side of which is even free of charge. part 2) in theory a WebDAV upstreaming driver could be written for Radio. Together, you'd have one secure way of moving things up to the web automagically.
12:04:38 AM  Categories: Pushing rectangles... Radio
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