[Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

[David Leeming]

OK point taken! We have used WinSCP on networked Windows PCs too, for this
purpose.

 

David Leeming

Solomon Islands Rural Link 



 

 

From: Anna [mailto:aschoolf at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 19 January 2011 10:11 a.m.
To: David Leeming
Cc: XS Devel
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

 

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:31 PM, David Leeming
<david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:


I have never tried selecting the Gnome option, but a nice GUI would be
useful for users with limited grasp of command line stuff for file
management. Maybe that is available already


David Leeming
Solomon Islands Rural Link

 



Managing a system with Gnome sounds seductive, but I can't think of a faster
way to bork up a server than to let a novice admin loose in GUI tools with
root powers.

For file management, say a user level directory under /var/www/html, far
better to mount it with sshfs from a remote system (there's even a Windows
tool for that called dokan).  That way you can have the ease of a GUI
filesystem tool without the risks of actually running a Window Manager on
the server itself. Not to mention installing Gnome and X Windows and all the
deps takes a ton of space.

Anna Schoolfield
Birmingham 

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