editing linux conf files on windows?

[Humberto Rodriguez]

It is not hard, but I don't know how to do it.  My son set it up for
me.  It has to be set up at the server  and in your computer. Maybe
someone else here in the list can help you.  Remember about the
security precautions and restrict the access. I do have a static IP
from my DSL.
Regards,
Humberto


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Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 7:23 PM
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Subject: Re: editing linux conf files on windows?

is it easy to set up?
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From: "Humberto Rodriguez" <sub at hrfinancial.com>
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Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:32 PM
Subject: RE: editing linux conf files on windows?


> To add something to the excellent explanation given to you by Tim,
let
> me tell you how I do it. 
> 
> I use Samba.  Samba allows you to map a drive letter to the remote
> Unix machine and reach it from your Windows machine as if it were a
> drive in your own computer.  That way, from my Windows computer, I
> open a file in my Unix server, lets say for example, from my text
> editor, I open t:\home\abc\cgi-bin\whatever\myscript.pl then edit it
> and save it with Unix line endings.  It is as easy as editing a file
> in Windows.  Similarly, I may create a new Unix file in the server.
I
> could also copy files to and from the server, as easily as copying
> from one folder to another.  I never use FTP.  Samba usually comes
> with Linux.
> 
> Using Telnet, I take care of the permissions.  You could also do it
> with SSH or FTP, but I use Telnet.
> 
> Beware however, that both Telnet and Samba are security risks and
need
> to be restricted.  I have mine restricted only to certain static
IPs.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Humberto
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tim Chase
> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 9:07 AM
> To: Linux for blind general discussion
> Subject: Re: editing linux conf files on windows?
> 
>> hello is there a windows text editor that will save and
>> edit conf files eg I want to log in via sftp grab a conf
>> file from linux box configure it on windows then save it
>> in the unix format that it came in put it back in the dir
>> on my linux box there a editor that I can edit my conf
>> files with?
> 
> You've got a couple options:
> 
> 1)  you can ssh into the remote box and edit it with a linux 
> editor.  This is usually the approach I take, and it works 
> quite well for me.
> 
> 2)  you can do as you describe, and FTP the file, then use a 
> Unix-aware editor on Windows, and then FTP the file back. 
> In addition to the editors mentioned by Humberto, there's 
> vim/gvim.  The nice thing about learning this beast is that 
> it runs on both Windows and Linux (and BSD, and MacOS, and...)
> 
> 3)  you can use a network/sftp aware editor.  Vim has the 
> "netrw" plugin which allows you to directly edit files over 
> FTP, SFTP, HTTP, DAV, RCP, rsync and others.  There's plenty 
> of online help in Vim on the netrw plugin at
> 
> :help netrw
> 
> I'm afraid, being a vim-user, I don't know of any other 
> editors that allow this.  I presume emacs can do the same, 
> but I wouldn't know where to start, using it.
> 
> 4)  lastly, you can do exactly as you're currently doing, 
> only exploit FTP's built-in ability to do DOS-to-UNIX 
> line-ending conversion.  If you FTP the file in ASCII mode 
> (rather than BINARY mode), it will translate the 
> line-endings to your local (Windows) scheme.  You can then 
> edit the file with whatever editor you like.  Then, when you 
> FTP it back, just make sure that it's in ASCII mode again, 
> and FTP will do the translation from DOS line-endings to 
> UNIX line-endings as it uploads the file
> 
> Hope this gives you some options to explore on how to work best.
> 
> -tim
> 
> 
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