Date: 10/27/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, software, web, linux

Note: This is commercial software, but I am not affiliated or paid for endorsing it.

A little bit ago I started using sshfs which is a open source system tool that mounts remote directories to a local directory via ssh (encrypted secure connection) and I thought it would be cool if there was something similar for the Windows world. After googling and asking a lot of people, the link below was the best I could find. Basically what it does is make a drive map to a remote ftp / sftp server and expose the files there to your machine. The only problem I have with it is the price $20+. It's not exactly cheap, but when your the only person in town with a really useful service, I guess you can set whatever price you want.

Why this is useful?
Before I would use Dream weaver to keep my files sync'd, even when I used 2+ other IDE's and file editing tools. It wasn't exactly perfect but it worked in a half-assed way. Now with webdrive, the files appear local to any tool (Komodo, php, eclipse, python) but when you change them, it updates the remote as well.

http://www.webdrive.com/

Otherwise, anyone know of something cheaper/similar?  The only other idea I had was to use sshfs on my linux server like so remote_files -> local_linux.sshfs -> remote_local.samba -> windows workstation.   If the last sentence didn't make sense, then just know that it would be tedious to do. 

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/365812.html