On Apr 23, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:03:00PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having >> to mount it, but I need to do more than that. >> >> I want to be able to access either Java classes or an executable on a shared >> volume on a server without having to mount the volume on the local system. >> (There are a couple reasons for not wanting to mount.) I know on Windows I >> can list the files on an SMB share on another system and access them using >> SMB/CIFS by just specifying the volume properly on the command line. I want >> to do something like that on Linux, but do more than just listing the files >> or copying them to the local computer. >> >> I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which could be >> SMB or NFS (or something else) without mounting the volume. For example, if >> I'm on System A and I have an executable on System B, and it's on a network >> share on System B, is there any way to run that executable without mounting >> that share as a volume on System A? >> > Here's a possible workaround. It involves mounting, but as a regular > user. > > I'd use sshfs. The remote server needs to have an ssh server running. > Then you can run this: > > sshfs remoteserver:/some/path localdir > > Then you can ls localdir, or operate on any of the files there. > > If you use public key authentication and ssh-add, you can do this > without needing to enter a password. > > I've never used this to access a non-linux machine, but in theory it > should work on anything that is running an ssh server.
That is mounting, but, as I mentioned in another email, clients that use Linux on a desktop are a lot easier to deal with on these things than Windows users. I still have to test on Windows to be sure that I can actually run a jar from an unmounted SMB share. I can operate on files like that, so I would think I can run a jar that way. sshfs sounds like a good idea and I'll look into it. That would work on both the Mac and Linux. Thanks! Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/9d508e39-7be0-4b99-b890-43db96c19...@halblog.com
