If all you want is a convenient way to (securely) mount a remote Linux file system to edit files (or copy them to a local location to edit them off-line), then there are two very easy ways to do that:
For a Linux client, SSHFS: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html For Windows client, WinSCP: http://winscp.net/eng/index.php (useful supplementary read: http://winscp.net/eng/docs/task_edit) ...or at least these are what I use, mostly in the context of editing remote files with an instance of gvim running on my client machine or copying something I'm working on to a local directory for offline viewing/editing. On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Edmund R. MacKenty < [email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, October 21, 2011 08:49:27 am McKown, John wrote: > > This is likely going to sound weird. But an idea has been bouncing around > > in my head and tormenting me. Some terminology as I use it: "desktop" is > > my local PC and "host" is the remote z/Linux. Now, I connect from my > > desktop to the host using SSH with reverse tunneling for X access. ... > > > > What I would like to have is a way to mount my desktop's $HOME on the > host > > some way so that host programs can access files on my desktop like they > > can NFS mounted files on other servers. ... > > You have to set up port forwarding for the ports used by NFS. The primary > port is 2049, but there's other ports used by the portmap service, the lock > daemon and so on. Here's a link to a solution that might work for you: > > > http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red-hat-fedora-linux/170280-solved-nfs-mount- > via-ssh-tunnel.html > - MacK. > ----- > Edmund R. MacKenty > Software Architect > Rocket Software > 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA > Tel: +1.617.614.4321 > Email: [email protected] > Web: www.rocketsoftware.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
