I just stumbled on a tool called webdrive. You can mount hdd's of your server
as a network drive to your desktop. That way you can edit/save files directly
from your workstation to your server without use of ftp. You can also transfer
files.
Webdrive can be found @
http://www.webdrive.com
Enjoy....and be carefull editing/deleting stuff that's running live on your server
