Remote File System...

[Rasjid]

"Donovan J. Edye" wrote:
> 
> G'Day,
> 
> I have 2 boxes both running Debian unstable. A gateway box (GW) and an
> internal box (DEV). I want to keep the GW box as secure as possible so the
> only access into the box is via SSH. The DEV box does however have SAMBA on
> it. My primary workstation (WKS) is however a Win2K box. My questions are:
> 
> 1.      I would like to allow WKS to see the file systems of GW & DEV
> easily. DEV is no issue as it is running SAMBA. How do I see GW from WKS in
> a secure fashion?

I would suggest http://www.i-tree.org/ixplorer.htm for a nice GUI
interface, or just use Putty for a command line interface
(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/).  Ixplorer is just
a front end for some of the putty components anyway.

> 2.      I would like DEV to be able to see GW's file system in a secure
> fashion? This is so that I can access it from the command line.
> 
> In short I want GW to be as secure as possible and not give anything away
> about the other machines on the network. GW should not have any visible
> connections to other machines in the network.

What is wrong with the ssh command line?  Anyway, presumably DEV runs
X.  So just ssh -X GW, and use whatever file browser you have on GW.  If
GW does not have X installed, and you really want a GUI interface, then
I have no idea.

Or are you wanting to mount GW's filesystem on DEV in a secure fashion?

Rasjid.