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color:#1F497D'>OK point taken! We have used WinSCP on networked Windows PCs
too, for this purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>David Leeming<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Solomon Islands Rural Link <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Anna [mailto:aschoolf@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 19 January 2011 10:11 a.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> David Leeming<br>
<b>Cc:</b> XS Devel<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:31 PM, David Leeming <<a
href="mailto:david@leeming-consulting.com">david@leeming-consulting.com</a>>
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I have never tried selecting the Gnome option, but a nice GUI would be<br>
useful for users with limited grasp of command line stuff for file<br>
management. Maybe that is available already<br>
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David Leeming<br>
Solomon Islands Rural Link</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Anna Schoolfield<br>
Birmingham <o:p></o:p></p>
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