[SOLVED] Network Read/Write Web Dev Permission Issue

[sbenard]

Good day friends!

I have a good question for you. I have set up a Ubuntu box as a development web server. I do my design work on my XP laptop, and every attempt to add/delete/modify the web development files located on the Ubuntu box fail because I do not have the permissions needed to do so.

I tried to use the FTP approach, working on my XP laptop, transferring my development files via FTP to the Ubuntu box, which uses the VSFTPD FTP daemon, and setting up VSFTPD gives me pain where the back loses its name. Do you think it would be easier to set up my web development folder to accept read/write access from my laptop than to set up a FTP server?

How would I go about to do this?

[scathefire]

what about secure copy? just google scp.

[sbenard]

what about secure copy? just google scp.

Hi Scathefire, are you the only one reading my threads on this forum? Haha. You're certainly the only one who answered my questions, so thank you very much!

So I'm afraid SCP would not fill all of the requirements of the ideal web development setting. I wish to have read-write access to files through programs as well as through the XP file explorer - to develop websites, I use text editors on my XP machine, and the files are actually located on the Ubuntu machine, since that is where my Apache set up is located. This is an important and non-negotiable setup for me at the moment. I won't get into the details, but the VSFTPD 'user credential issue' thread I started relates to this SAMBA network file sharing issue.

I managed to solve the SAMBA network file share issue by assigning read-write privileges to the 'SAMBA' user for the folder I store the website development files, and now I can open Ubuntu-hosted files straight from the text editing program. Being able to work on Ubuntu-hosted files from my XP machine is important because there are less chances at versioning errors and less time is wasted: in the ideal set up, I don't have to copy the file to my XP machine and then make changes, and transfer the file again to the Ubuntu machine and test my changes.

Thank you for your help, you have been my personal assistant in my quest to get this issue resolved.