to open the document(pdf) present in remote server from the local machine....

satishgupta05 · 06-03-2008, 05:20 AM

Hot to open a document (lets suppose PDF document), present in the remote server (in the same network) from the working server in the Linux?

Example: If any document present in the remote server "Server1" and I am working on the other server "Server2", then how can I open a document(PDF document) present in the "Server1".

Please leave your valuable suggestion about this.

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daniel-kun · 06-03-2008, 05:42 AM

The easiest way that will work without additional setup (given that ssh is up and running, of course) is using scp.
You can copy files with scp like this:
scp remote-user@remote-host:/home/remote...emote-file.pdf /home/local-user/

Regards,
Daniel Albuschat

theYinYeti · 06-03-2008, 06:22 AM

sshfs (on fuse) would allow you to make the remote directory appear local to local applications.

Yves.

daniel-kun · 06-04-2008, 01:20 AM

Yes that's even easier, but I guess you need root access to mount it if there's no entry in fstab.

theYinYeti · 06-09-2008, 08:53 AM

Fuse can be setup to allow simple users to perform ssh mounts, but it is not trivial.

Yves.

mtimbro · 06-09-2008, 10:09 AM

Actually, you can install X on Server1, install xpdf on it and export X to Server2...

Just kidding, is this a one-time thing or recursive action ?

If one-time, scp will do the trick.

Otherwise, just start NFS on Server1 and mount the directory where the file resides on Server2. sshfs is justifiable if you need encryption.

Cheers,