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This is actually more of a note for myself but it may be of use to you. I often find myself running up Linux VMs to test and build LAMP based systems but since I (generally) use Windows it is a major pain to have to transfer files via scp or worse edit files using vi.

However is you install Samba into your test VM, you can simply browse to the folder using Windows explorer and edit the files directly. The following configuration exposes your /var/www folder via Samba and makes its content editable by everyone. It makes the files read/writeable by all and makes sure that www-data remains the owner.

Needless to say this configuration is very very insecure and MUST NOT be used in production !

`This is actually more of a note for myself but it may be of use to you. I often find myself running up Linux VMs to test and build LAMP based systems but since I (generally) use Windows it is a major pain to have to transfer files via scp or worse edit files using vi.

However is you install Samba into your test VM, you can simply browse to the folder using Windows explorer and edit the files directly. The following configuration exposes your /var/www folder via Samba and makes its content editable by everyone. It makes the files read/writeable by all and makes sure that www-data remains the owner.

Needless to say this configuration is very very insecure and MUST NOT be used in production !

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