How to etit files from win XP?

alexus · Apr 1, 2006, 10:17 PM

Hi, Ive wrote some updates to Captive portal that I will integrate in Monowall, but I have to wait on mono ppl tp explain me how to edit files…

So I thought maybe you can tell me how to edit files? Ive installed MVware Developeer Image (apperantly one that i got is v0.96.2) but any way I cant gett anything to work.... if I go to shell it doesnt even let me to do "dir" although "cd" works.... also to edit files I normally use Linspect Editor but it only gets the config menu of the box?

Any advice?

sullrich · Apr 1, 2006, 10:41 PM

Diagnostics -> Edit file

alexus · Apr 1, 2006, 10:58 PM

Diagnostics Comand not found :-(

sullrich · Apr 2, 2006, 1:45 AM

This is a Drop down menu, not a shell command.

alexus · Apr 2, 2006, 2:29 AM

oh..
I ment how can I see the filder list and etc. Sure use GUI for file editing will work, but might get furstrating after a while

hoba · Apr 2, 2006, 4:08 AM

Enable SSH at your pfsense. Then use http://winscp.net/ to connect with user root and password <webguipassword>. It's an easy way to download/upload/modify files.</webguipassword>

alexus · Apr 7, 2006, 6:40 PM

Doesnt work :-(
I've rtied all 3 modes and im just getting the errors: access denied for ftp, evetuthing else giies me that reply message is too long
:-(

sullrich · Apr 7, 2006, 6:41 PM

Login as ROOT. Set mode to SFTP (allow SCP fallback).

This has been axed like 100 times now.

alexus · Apr 7, 2006, 6:43 PM

now it 101st time :-P

Gertjan · May 28, 2006, 10:39 PM

Actually, I've been asking the same thing a couple of days ago.
'Of course' I searched the forum and the mail lists - but did'nt get an answer to my question "How does one connect pscp to transfer files from and to it…."
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=1319.0.
Have to say that I have SSH access to the pfSEnse box. - This is just plain easy.
And in 'my days', using vi wasn't any problem - it was far more better then edlin on another platform…. ;)

The solution to my problem was: I was using the user named admin, that just doesn't work. One should use root. Like:

pscp -ls root@192.168.1.1:/usr
```.
This will ask you for a password, and afterwards spit out the directory of **/usr**.
Better yet:

pscp -pw mypassword root@192.168.1.1:/root/.login login

will copy the (hidden) .login file to your host, the file will be named login.
You could edit it, and copy it back.

**pscp** is a Windows XP command line progam, part of the **Putty** telnet/SSH toolkit, you can download it for free.

sullrich · May 28, 2006, 10:48 PM

What is wrong with Diagnostics -> Edit file?