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All,

I'm looking for a solution to a remote editing problem - simply, from my office, I'd like to use TextPad to remotely edit files on my home web server. My office system is Windows 2000 Pro, and my home web server is Red Hat Linux 7.2 running Apache. My home web server is protected by a firewall. Anyone have a suggestion?

At the moment, from my office I SSH2 into my home web server, and use pico to do the edits. It's a less than ideal solution. I've seen the FTP add-on, but I won't enable FTP on my server for security issues. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
SunGod

I think I've answered my own question... for those looking for a similar answer, here seem to be the most viable options:

1. Punch a hole in your firewall to allow access to a Samba share on your server, and connect to the share from the remote system to access the files. The major downside to this option is that Samba really should NOT be made accessible via the Internet due to possible security issues.

2. Set up a VPN (Virtual Private Network) between your web server and your remote client so that only access from your remote client is allowed. This is the preferred method. Your firewall needs to be configurable to accomodate VPN.

Hope this helps somebody.