Alex Phillips wrote:
> 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.
>
How about FreeNX (
http://freenx.berlios.de/) with a slow connection
Brian
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