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- duhblow7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Everybody likes to point out an alternative solution. Of course you can VPN, ssh, scp, ftp, sftp, nfs, samba, cifs, etc. Why can't we just take articles like this for what it's worth.
I don't need to come up with a hypothetical situation where this solution would in fact be the best available option for everybody to stop coming up with their favorite solution, do I? - dimator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16How is this different for any other distro of Linux? sshfs is nothing new. Is appending "on Ubuntu" just a sure-fire gimmick to get stories promoted?
- Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15If you don't post "on Ubuntu" in the title, you'll get 90 comments like:
"But will this work on the Ubuntu Operating System kernal?" - Brennan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10This has nothing to do with Ubuntu. Do most of these people even realize that Ubuntu is just another linux distribution?
- Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10You must be new here. Welcome.
- tuffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The nice thing about sshfs is that you can use standard tools to deal with files transparently rather than performing a second scp step. For instance, you might have a remote site mounted in your home directory. You could then have Firefox save a file to that remote site via ssh using its standard "Save" dialog rather than save the file locally and then scp it over. When sending files back and forth to the same remote site a lot, it's a real time saver.
- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9In Kubuntu, type fish://remotesrv in Konqueror (technically that's not mounting, but does most of the things people need)
Can it get any easier than that? - jdtanner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Or you could forward port 139 via ssh to allow Samba access...
ssh -C -L 139:samba.server:139 user@ssh.server
...then you should be able to get at your shares via smb://127.0.0.1/share
Of course you don't need -C (compression) but it helps...and you'll need to disable sharing on your own pc (or install a loopback adaptor). Google "breaking firewalls putty" for more information...
John - Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"The howto uses apt-get"
So if I replaced apt-get with "emerge", then it's exclusive for Gentoo? - MikeDawg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8The lemmings need a path to follow. . .
- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You can edit the files as they are on the local machine with fish protocol too. In KDE text editors work with remote files.
- duhblow7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5FYI, the only thing Ubuntu about this is the module. Everything else applies to most other distro's as well.
- custerfluck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5for full digg value you should find a way to use ubuntu and mac in the title. the title for this article should have been "How to Mount a Remote Folder using SSH on Ubuntu on your Mac"
- joelito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Good, could you post a tutorial for the n00bs to do it?
- Xenogis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"for full digg value you should find a way to use ubuntu and mac in the title. the title for this article should have been "How to Mount a Remote Folder using SSH on Ubuntu on your Mac""
thank you - quarsaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@duhblow
I see your point but I don't really object to people posting alternatives - MacFlecknoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The FUSE module isnt specific to Ubunto. It has been in the mainstream Linux kernel tree for a while now.
Seriously... if you have no idea... resist urge to pretend that you do. - dattaway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I use remotely mounted filesystems on my embedded computers (single board computers,) where the host drives are often the slow USB bus. Through this or NFS, I can use 100mbit/sec connections, which is at least a x10 speed increase. Since my slow embedded computer now passes on the file management to a server, it can spend more CPU time on valuable processes.
- ace77, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Yes, I agree, using fish in Konqueror is easy and nice but mounting the remote filesystem gives you more options like editing files like if they were in the local machine.
- Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Similar thing in stock Ubuntu using Gnome. Places->Mount Remote Share... (or something to that effect, it's been a while). Select "SSH" as the type of share and you're good to go.
- scrubadub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Nice although I've never got into sshfs since sftp/scp does everything I need it to do
- saftaplan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think a VPN does't give you much more possibility on a GNU/Linux environment. In Windows, you sometimes really need it for cerain functions, but can you please give me a few things you can do on a VPN you can't do otherwise on GNU/Linux? It may be more secure (or less, because you need only one password instead of one for each service)? I can use printers, scanners, files, ... from a remote location without VPN. I see VPN as a last resort, it always feels like some kind of 'hack'.
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I mount stuff using WebDAV over http or https. it's standard on OSX, and it's not impossible to setup on Linux.
- phatsphere, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i just go to (in gnome menu) places -> connection to server -> ssh ... user/passwd ... inital folder and thats it. now a double click on the desktop and i can access my files on my home pc when on my laptop ...
- ramd3z, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Might be a nice way to centralize your families documents and auto mount them for everyone from within the fstab. O and I would guess it's all secure too..
I give this suggestion for people perhaps new to linux that didn't know this could be used as a method to remotely mount. A few months ago I would have passed over this article. - xertys, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Likewise it isn't mounting, but you can do most functions (drag/drop/delete etc) from within Nautilus by typing ssh://user@ip in the address bar.
- galo_2099, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You can do the same for FTP using CurlFtpFS
curlftpfs.sourceforge.net - BigSlacker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'd go for a VPN first if you can. That will give a lot more flexibility.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1you can also use nautilus to 'mount' remote filesystems, but they are only accessable thru nautilus, or certain applications that know how to access them like gedit
dont need to install anything extra to use it though
also sshfs seems to lockup applications waiting on filelistings that are unaccessable - BigSlacker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Just google it. It's sort of a site specific thing though and whoever manages the servers should have instructions.
- spz104, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is handy, especially for those that use command line. Additionally it requires little to no setup on the remote end (i.e. no SMB or NFS) since sshd is probably already running. However, I tried sshfs about a year ago and found it to crap out after a while. It was using it to access media like mp3s and video, so keep in mind this works best for small tasks, use the real tools for more permanent/heavy network mounts. Still, a very useful tool, check out the other fuse tools as well.
- r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5The howto uses apt-get, which isn't supported by all distros. That's why it specifies Ubuntu.
- r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@Phocion55
are you stupid? What's so hard to understand, the howto was written for Ubuntu, and he states this in the title to ensure that users don't go expecting it to work for other distros without modifications. What is so bloody hard to understand about that? Christ you people are ***** retarded sometimes. - Julolidine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0You can use LUFS as well, and it also has the handy capability of mounting FTP sites.
- orbvsterrarvm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2sshfs doesn't install quite the same on different distros. People that are new to linux need more specific articles for their distribution
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