Re: [Hampshire] Accessing my home files from work

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Author: Philip Stubbs
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Accessing my home files from work
* Hugo Mills (hugo@???) wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:14:45PM +0000, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> > I have a server at home running Debian, that I can access from work
> > via ssh.
> >
> > At work, I am limited to a Windows PC. I have no control over the
> > network, but I can install programs on my PC, as long as they are
> > legit.
> >
> > What I would like to do, is to be able to access files on my server
> > as if they are local to the machine at work.
> >
> > There are occasions when I want to work on a LaTeX document on my
> > server. At the moment, I have to ssh in to do the editing, and I
> > then have to create a link to the resulting PDF in my web servers
> > home, then I can call that up in my browser at work.
> >
> > Although this works, I would like a better solution. Is there one?
>
>    OpenVPN and either Samba or NFS for Windows?


Thanks Hugo. I think that may be the point in the right direction
that I needed.

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Philip Stubbs
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