[Fedora] Re: Outside access

[Mark Haney]

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>> You can use cygwin/ssh.  We do that all the time.
>    While I agree with this, there's a very (VERY) high probability 
> that the outside person would need something graphical on their end.  
> And (at the moment) not knowing what platform they're on - I'm waiting 
> for an e-mail reply - I can't even begin to offer solutions.  But I 
> figured if i can at least get the ball rolling here, it might give me 
> some ideas of how best to approach this problem.
>
>    Preferred would be some drag-n-drop interface on their machine.  
> Whether they're on Windows or Mac, they would need to have access to a 
> specific folder on our (Windows) file server (which in and by itself 
> is another headache since the file server does not employ any kind of 
> user login, it's just set up for guest access and any John, Jane, and 
> Jekyll in the building can access it and everything on it.)
>
>    Another possibility I thought of was to have an specific (user) 
> folder on one of our internet servers (FC5) and have them ftp into 
> that.  Then through samba, have that folder also available on our 
> internal network.  This protects against outside access all the way 
> into our network, but does require me to do a bit more legwork.
>
You can still use WinSCP for sftp file transfers, it has a GUI that is 
pretty neat actually.  It's dual-pane like Explorer, so the learning 
curve wouldn't be that bad for a new user.


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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