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Remote SSH filesharing from Finder is EASY
Authored by: Chas on Oct 18, '02 07:47:41PM

Yes, it is quite easy to use SSH-encrypted sharing. Once you've set up your SSH permissions, you merely need to connect to the server, at the password window just hit the Options button, and select the option to allow SSH encrypted connections. You will then connect to your remote disk volume just like any other file share, except it's encrypted. Note that the dialog box will show a URI like
afp://yourIPnumbers:548/
instead of the usual
afp://yourIPnumbers/
Yes, you're filesharing over port 548, with SSH encryption. It's EASY, just one extra click, and you are connected securely. One other advantage: you can use SSH filesharing to connect to a remote machine anywhere, with normal filesharing they have to be on the same local subnet. You can even create an alias of the shared volume, just doubleclick and the encrypted connection is reestablished.



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Remote SSH filesharing from Finder is EASY
Authored by: Jay D on Oct 18, '02 08:23:21PM

assuming the remote machine is running os x server, right? it seems a default config option on server, but not the client version of os x, where you have to do the tunnelling thing somewhat manually.



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Remote SSH filesharing from Finder is EASY
Authored by: Chas on Oct 18, '02 09:17:49PM

No, MacOS X Server is not required. I can connect via Finder SSH filesharing easily between two plain MacOS X 10.2 machines. Try it!
Of course, you'd need other arrangements (like rcp, sftp etc) for connecting to other types of machines & OS.



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Remote SSH filesharing from Finder is EASY
Authored by: zed on Oct 20, '02 05:50:41AM

But All this requires extra ports to be open on the firewall!..

I'm assuming that most people who want to send files back and forth are not the admins of the firewall, and getting firewall admins to open ports just is not done!..

Cheers,
---Zed :cool:



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Remote SSH filesharing from Finder is EASY
Authored by: Jay D on Oct 21, '02 02:06:33PM

Yeah, that's sort of my thought. I really like that the only open port is 22. Thanks for the correction that it's supported though!



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