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General Discussion Area / Re: How the He%#$ can you connect to a VPN with Vi
« on: 05 September 2007, 18:28:02 »Quote
It depends on how often you'll be doing this, and the nature of the transfers. If it's just the occasional file now and then, I'd set up an SSH server on the remote machine and use SCP (or SFTP) to copy the files as required. If you want to synchronise files between them I'd use rsync, but tunnel that over SSH too for security. Alternatively you can set up an FTP server (although standard FTP uses plain text logins, something I'd never have on one of my systems -- I'd recommend using SSL) or even a web server, which isn't really a good approach for just file transfers but many people do it.As he said no techie talk, I assumed Windows, so no rsync or similar. May be able to do it via cygwin, but that product is poor.
What operating systems are you running on each machine? Once you know what service you want we can give some guidance on how to configure it.
Any form of tunnelling (inc SSL) is encapsulated. If the files are large, as implicated, this will have a massive hit on throughput, esp as (again assuming) likely simple broadband links.
