Is there anyway I could remotely login, download the contents for editing, then clear the 'audio' folder?
ftp
since this would be an unattended box, and having yet another system turned into a zombie to pollute the internet is the last thing you want, I'd think that OpenSSH is your friend here.
personally, I'd stick with linux and kill
any and all daemons/servers except for
sshd on the box.
create only
root and one "
user" account.... put
PermitRootLogin without-password into the
sshd_config file and the "
user" into
AllowUsers... configure
PubkeyAuthentication, turn off
PasswordAuthentication, and fire it up using something other than port 22.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AdvancedOpenSSHthe blackhats should now have one hell of a time installing their script kiddies... hopefully so much so, that they'll move on to a windoze box somewhere else
assuming that the box will connect thru a router, you may need to "punch a hole" for that port in the router and pray that the joint has a static IP address
so to remotely login it's
ssh... and
scp or
sftp to move files over the wire.
oh... then set up
sudo for any audio apps that you need to locally/remotely run as
root.