On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:19:11AM -0500, Jared wrote:
>Is it possible to browse a remote folder through FTP?  Eg, if I enter ':e .'
>it'll display the directory browser for the current directory.  How can I do
>the same for remote directories?
>
>I can run ':e sftp://sage/nessus_conf/nessusd.conf' to edit a particular
>file, but if I don't know the exact filename I'd like to be able to run
>something like ':e sftp://sage/nessus_conf/' to get a directory listing.

If you are on Linux you can mount a remote filesystem via sshfs.  Here's
a tutorial:
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/28/how-to-mount-a-remote-ssh-filesystem-using-sshfs/

Then you can work on the remote system as though it were local.
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yours,

William

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