On Feb 20, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Jeff Roberts wrote:
> I need to read and write some plain text configuration files on a
> linux
> server on a regular basis. I'd like some degree of security too. I
> was
> thinking of using scp but I havent found an easy solution for vfp that
> utilizes scp. I also thought of using samba to just share the folder
> containing the config files and read/writing to them from fox just
> like they
> were a windows share, but then you get into issues with
> permissions. Anyone
> have a proven method for this that works well?
What I do is create a Samba share on the Linux box, and then create
symlinks to the files in that share. You still need to make sure that
you have permission to edit the files, but at least you're not
exposing anything but that shared folder.
-- Ed Leafe
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