If you need to mount a share as a network drive in Windows, then Samba is the right thing to use. If you just need simple access to drag and drop files (but not necessarily mount a share as a network drive) then WinSCP is probably the best solution, since it uses SSH.
Chris On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > Goal: Have a directory on a Linux box that I can mount on my Windows 7 > computer, securely. > > My first thought was to try setting up a Linux Samba share and only make it > available over SSH for security. > > I've been having problems getting it to work. Samba appears to be set up > correctly.(?) After trying for a bit Windows simply reports that it cannot > connect (big help). I've gone through the first several search results that > I get online, but I haven't found anything that works yet. > > Any hints on getting it set up? Am I going in the right direction? Or is > there a better, secure way for a Windows computer to mount a Linux directory > over the network? > > Paul > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
