On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 00:57 -0700, Cliff Wells wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 23:37 -0700, Robby Russell wrote: > > *an actual question* > > > > Cliff/PDXLUG, > > > > I brought this up a *long* time ago. Is there anything that can allow > > Linux to mount a SSH path to your local file system? Cliff, I recall you > > mentioning something recently on the IRC channel [1]. > > > > [1] #orlug on irc.freenode.net > > > > > > I've been using FUSE with the sshfs filesystem for the last couple of > weeks. So far it's worked flawlessly. Also, it takes all of 10 minutes > to download and install. Basically the './configure && make && make > install' for both packages, followed by 'modprobe fuse' and mounting the > filesystems. > > The only issue I've had to date are with Nautilus. For some reason > sshfs reports the UID/GID from the remote host, not the user who mounted > the local fs. In practice this doesn't matter since most programs just > try to read/write and are successful. However, Nautilus actually checks > permissions and gets the mistaken impression that you can't write to the > sshfs and so prevents you from doing so, even though in reality it > could. > > I've submitted a report to the author of sshfs (and tried unsuccessfully > to patch the code myself). > > Other than that, it makes my life at least 8% easier. > > Cliff
Okay, got it installed. Seems to work fairly well. Few weird things. One, if the remote SSH machine has symlinks, those don't work for obvious reasons. Is is possible to specify a specific path on the SSH server? (I assume that there is... I will check the docs) -Robby -- /****************************************************** * Robby Russell, Owner.Developer.Geek * PLANET ARGON, Open Source Solutions & Web Hosting * Portland, Oregon | p: 503.351.4730 | f: 815.642.4068 * www.planetargon.com | www.robbyonrails.com *******************************************************/ _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug
