You could use sftp.  sftp is basically FTP over ssh.  That would get you
to/from a Linux box.  You could use Putty SFTP or some of the more GUI
ftp clients are starting to support SFTP (CuteFTP, WS_FTP Pro (not LE)).

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:25, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 09:24 AM 10/16/2003 -0700, M  Lu wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> > >From Bering router machine, I would like to read/write from/to some files on
> >an internal machine (either Linux or MS Windows-Server). What is the best
> >way to do that?
> 
> As posed, this question is a bit too general to get a good answer.
> 
> First, the answers for Linux and Windows are likely to be quite different.
> 
> Second, what do you actually want to do?
> 
> As a general matter, you have three options that I can think of, none of 
> them very attractive in the context of LEAF/Bering.
> 
> 1. Mount a remote filesystem on the LEAF router in one of the usual ways 
> ... NFS or SMB. I don't *think* there are ready-made Bering packages for 
> either (at least I can't find them in Jacques' package area), and probably 
> the Bering kernel doesn't include support for these filesystems anyway. 
> Were this a standard Linux-to-Linux problem, or Linux-to-Windows, I'd 
> probably go this way.
> 
> 2. Use an activity-specific client-server setup (like the one for remote 
> syslog'ing). Whether this works for you depends on the specifics of what 
> you want to do ... does a suitable pair of apps exist, and is the client 
> one packaged for LEAF/Bering?
> 
> 3. Use ssh to connect to the internal server from the LEAF router and do 
> what you need to do. This is straightforward if you want to access those 
> files from a standard command-line app (edit them with vi, for example) ... 
> or at least it is straightforward for the LiEAF-to-Linux variant ... but 
> messy if you want to run some other sort of updater over an ssh tunnel.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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