On Dec 3, 2007 9:23 AM, Samuel Penn <sam@???> wrote:
>
> On Sun, December 2, 2007 21:14, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> > 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?
>
> WebDAV is a solution. Your webserver will still need access
> to the files you want to edit however.
>
> Another solution if you have a fast connection is to run a local
> X server, and tunnel X over SSH. You do need a fast connection
> however, so it's probably not practical (I have 800Kb up, and
> though Konqueror works, it's not really fast enough).
>
> --
> Be seeing you, http://www.glendale.org.uk
> Sam. xmpp:sam@???
>
>
Yet another solution, if your connection isn't fast enough for X, is
use VNC, tunneled over ssh if needed. Not quite what you originally
asked for, but would give you access to your files, as if you were sat
at your home server.
Regards,
Alex.
