editing linux conf files on windows?

[Humberto Rodriguez]

I am with DSLI (www.DSLI.com) and they do offer static IPs.  Bell
South and Atlantic Broadband also offer it, for extra charge. 
Humberto


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Subject: Re: editing linux conf files on windows?

what dsl you with?
msn doesn't offer statick ip with there dsl powered buy qwest
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From: "Humberto Rodriguez" <sub at hrfinancial.com>
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Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 4:38 PM
Subject: RE: editing linux conf files on windows?


> 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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> 
> is it easy to set up?
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> From: "Humberto Rodriguez" <sub at hrfinancial.com>
> To: "'Linux for blind general discussion'" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> 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-----
>> From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [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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