Remote File Access [Archive]

airbornflght

11 Oct 2007, 5:01am

Here's the scenario.

I have my computer here in stillwater, and it's not exactly portable. So I am wanting to be able to get files from my computer in stillwater while I'm in enid.

All I need is read/write access to my files/folders. I don't need to see the desktop or anything, that is unimportant. What would I be looking to use. I think I need vpn, but it's a bit fuzzy to me. VNC is a remote desktop connection afaik, I don't want that.

Can you point me in the right direction?

Thrax

11 Oct 2007, 5:23am

Hamachi.

leishi85

11 Oct 2007, 5:51am

SSH

Your Amish Daddy

11 Oct 2007, 6:04am

Second vote for SSH. You can do anything with an SSH tunnel.

kryyst

11 Oct 2007, 1:24pm

First you'll need to know the address of that computer. If you have a static IP from your isp then that's easy. If not you'll need to setup dyndns (or something like it) so you can always find that machine.

As for the software to use ssh on a windows machine then that machine has to be running an ssh server (http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/). Then you need to put a whole in your router to forward ssh requests to your machine. If you aren't on a router then just make sure your machine doesn't have a firewall blocking whatever port you spec for ssh.

With ssh running that will give shell access to your computer.

airbornflght

11 Oct 2007, 2:08pm

yeh. I'm on a dedicated fiber line with a static ip, and my computer has a static private ip. So it's no big deal to port forward. Thanks for the pointers.

Thrax

11 Oct 2007, 3:12pm

Note: Hamachi is an SSH VPN, and is a lot easer to configure than cygwin, etc.

airbornflght

11 Oct 2007, 4:00pm

Kk. Does that just give me access to a command line type interface, or will is there some sort of gui that would let me browse the folders/files kind of like explorer?

I'm partially doing this because now my brother has no access to my files that I have on my computer. And while I'm trying to teach him, I'd rather not explain navigating directories through command line. And one of the directories has ~13k files.

Your Amish Daddy

11 Oct 2007, 6:39pm

Hamachi creates a VPN LAN basically. You actually act like a lan client with it, but I don't like it.

11 Oct 2007, 6:49pm

Using Hamachi goes like this:

Install the Hamachi software on multiple systems.

Create a 'LAN' with it's own name and password.

Log into the same 'LAN' from each computer.

Pretend like the computers are all in the same room.

Mamachi even assigns each system an 'internal IP', which makes communication super easy.