Re: Secure file sharing without OS X server?

In article <1hkkzjs.jafeii75sye8N%real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, that's about it. I've got these 'ere Macs - one running 10.3.9,
the other running 10.4.7. I'd like to have a secure file sharing
connection between them.

So I poked the GUI a bit - Finder, cmd-K, hit `Browse' in the `Connect
to server' window, open the required server in the network browser, and
get the `Connect to the File server ...' window.

In both 10.3.9 and 10.4.7, there's a set of option settings. One of
them says `Allow secure connections using ssh'.

All well and good, except that if I try it, I get told

`Can't make a secure connection to server [blah blah blah]

So I STFW, and found a document from Apple which explains that MacOS X
Server but not Mac OS X `normal' will provide AFP mount points which can
be accessed using ssh. And Apple boasts about MacOS X security, does
it? Hmm...

But from what else I read out there, there does seem to be some method
of configuring ssh via the command line so that it will encrypt a file
sharing session.

So: does anyone have a pointer to either a nice GUI app to configure
that sort of thing (to avoid pain), or failing that, a pointer to some
comprehensible documentation so I can learn how to do it the hard way?
From what I've picked up at the moment, it looks as if I'm going to have
to learn `All about ssh', and I don't fancy doing that with Web based
resources, let's put it like that.

AlmostVPN looks good. I'm playing with it just now. Nice GUI, and
lots of idiot level documentation.

SSH tunnel manager is incomprehensible.

Phil Taylor
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