local development server and mapping drives
I'm looking to add a headless server, in some out of the way location to make a webserver (intranet)/ db server. I want to use it for development of websites and database apps on, from my desktop. But, I want the ease of use of being able to read and write files without doing ftp, etc. I'd like to be able to point Quanta/Konquerer at it and have it look like a local filesystem. Is this a Samba project? Or is there another way to accomplish this, while still protecting the system from remote attacks should someone breach the firewall, or having the server inadvertantly expose itself beyond the firewall? Thanks, Brian D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
You could easily use any of the following to achieve your goal: NFS Samba OpenAFS Each has its pros and cons. On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Jack wrote:
I'm looking to add a headless server, in some out of the way location to make a webserver (intranet)/ db server. I want to use it for development of websites and database apps on, from my desktop. But, I want the ease of use of being able to read and write files without doing ftp, etc. I'd like to be able to point Quanta/Konquerer at it and have it look like a local filesystem. Is this a Samba project? Or is there another way to accomplish this, while still protecting the system from remote attacks should someone breach the firewall, or having the server inadvertantly expose itself beyond the firewall?
Thanks, Brian D.
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You can go the filesharing route, but would you prefer that over a version control system? Its true you'd have to synch up before editing, but then you can keep track of changes and transfer between the server and on your desktop... For me, the perceived complexity of CVS and SVN were always what kept me from using VCS, until I found darcs... Its a single 3MB binary, and very simple to setup/use. I think its atleast as easy mounting your SMB/NFS shares... Darcs site: http://abridgegame.org/darcs/
Aaron Spiegel wrote:
You can go the filesharing route, but would you prefer that over a version control system? Its true you'd have to synch up before editing, but then you can keep track of changes and transfer between the server and on your desktop...
I do this for most of the sites I manage. I make changes locally, check them into SVN/CVS, and have a make target that check the site out of the repository on the staging server.
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Jack wrote:
I'm looking to add a headless server, in some out of the way location to make a webserver (intranet)/ db server. I want to use it for development of websites and database apps on, from my desktop. But, I want the ease of use of being able to read and write files without doing ftp, etc.
Why not just load apache/db_server_of_choice on your desktop? Regards, -Don
On Friday 29 April 2005 10:02, Jack wrote:
I'm looking to add a headless server, in some out of the way location to make a webserver (intranet)/ db server. I want to use it for development of websites and database apps on, from my desktop. But, I want the ease of use of being able to read and write files without doing ftp, etc. I'd like to be able to point Quanta/Konquerer at it and have it look like a local filesystem. Is this a Samba project? Or is there another way to accomplish this, while still protecting the system from remote attacks should someone breach the firewall, or having the server inadvertantly expose itself beyond the firewall?
I'm surprised that no one else mentioned this yet: All KDE apps have KIOSlaves available to them. This means that any WebDAV, FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, LDAP, IMAP/S, SMTP and most importantly SSH URL may appear to a KDE app as a local file system. So, for instance, you can fire up Kate and type fish://username@<ssh ip address>/home/<username>/file.txt and edit a remote file as though it's local. Quanta also supports this. So you don't need to configure anything. By having SSH installed you have all you need.
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