Hi Pauline,
Thanks for the reply. I'll do my best. :)
Sometimes when working with a remote host, I need to simply move a file to/fr om the host. In this case, the File Transfer mode that RU currently provides is entirely sufficient.
However, frequently I have more elaborate file transfer needs. That might be:
1) synchronizing multiple specific files located in different folders across the drive
2) pushing/pulling files based on a script executing on the viewer computer.
3) iteratively tweaking CFG/INI files on the host without disrupting the activities on host desktop.
If the host computer were on the local network of the viewer computer, I would simply share a folder from the host computer and map a drive from the viewer computer:
net use z: \\host_system\share
now any program on the viewer computer can work with the mapped drive Z: just like any other drive.
But if the host computer is truly remote, I believe this can't currently be done without involving several extra steps, leveraging other solutions.
I regularly find myself thinking it would be very cool and useful for RU to have a built-in feature wh ere, once a viewer has logged on to a host, a mapped/virtual drive could be created on viewer computer that points to a location on the host computer. Not suggesting this is a simple feature, but it seems to me many of the key mechanisms are already in place.
Hope that helps!
Greg
