Re: sftp mount?
On Friday 07 November 2003 09:27 am, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if there might be any way to mount an sftp ``filesystem''? At my university everything is firewalled and the only way I can transfer files to/from my account is to use sftp -- but that gets quite painful after a while. I was wondering if anybody knew a way I might achieve what could essentially be described as mounting an sftp ``export''? Maybe I could specify an argument that sets the logical root? So: mount_sftp --root=/home/lewiz foo.bar.com /remote_home would provide /home/lewiz on foo.bar.com at /remote_host? Is this possible in any way at all? Or can anybody suggest any other way I might achieve something similar? Bear in mind I am actually restricted to sftp/ssh. Sorry, I didn't see this sooner... I don't know if this is exactly what you want, but you can do this in KDE using the fish:// protocol, which is basically file sharing over ssh. You bring up the konqueror browser and do fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED] and it should pop open a GUI representation of your home directory on the server hostname. When you click on an editable file it will run an editor and it really downloads the file, edits it, then when you go to save it says something like This file is on a remote host, do you want to upload it? and you just click yes. I haven't tried this will all different kinds of editors. The editors that come with the KDE desktop all work with this, but not sure about vi or emacs. So, it's not exactly what you had in mind, but it works for me. -- -Jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sftp mount?
* Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031107 18:01]: wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: * Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031107 17:28]: wrote: At my university everything is firewalled and the only way I can transfer files to/from my account is to use sftp -- but that gets quite painful after a while. What do you mean by quite painful? sftp should be very easy to use Yeah, it is fairly easy to use but it's still annoying to be doing it. In reality what I want is to edit the remote files directly. I don't want to be copying back/forth. It can't really be automated either, since I'm not doing the same task over and over. Basically you have to ask the folks administering your systems if they allow NFS and I doubt it already. No, they don't. Pretty much the only thing allowed is ssh/sftp. Or can anybody suggest any other way I might achieve something similar? Bear in mind I am actually restricted to sftp/ssh. Forget your ideas. Tell us what it is that you want to be doing. I want my remote home directory (available just by ssh) to be transparently available from a local directory :P I don't know how to do that via ssh, but I know how to execute commands remotely via SSH: ssh remote_host -t -A /usr/bin/ee /path/to/some/file Best regards, Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd. PS::REQUEST Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://learn.to/edit_messages http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html --+- Odhiambo W. wash(at)wananchi(dot)com . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) http://www.wananchi.com/email/ . 1ere Etage, Loita Hse, Loita St., Mobile: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI --+- What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket. Markets are self-correcting. That's why I trust markets more than governments. Governments usually aren't self-correcting, until too late. --Interview with Walter Wriston as reported in Wired 4.10 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sftp mount?
Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031108 05:32]: wrote: Copying a whole directory tree is pretty easy, especially with tool support, it's transparent while you're doing the editing, and you get full speed while you're editing. That would be my recommendation. Please elaborate that for my benefit ;-) I was being deliberately vague because there are *very* many ways of doing that sort of thing. One to which I had alluded earlier in the message was using rdist to synchronize the working files between two systems. You would do that before (and possibly after) each time you worked on the files. This has the advantage that when you are actually working on the files, you are always using local copies. I haven't done it, but I understand that it is quite easy to run rdist over ssh. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sftp mount?
* Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031107 17:28]: wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if there might be any way to mount an sftp ``filesystem''? At my university everything is firewalled and the only way I can transfer files to/from my account is to use sftp -- but that gets quite painful after a while. What do you mean by quite painful? sftp should be very easy to use, as it uses the underlying ssh. All you have to do is automate the ftp process. You can do this via a script run via your personal cron Tell us what you want to achieve and well chip in with good ideas. I was wondering if anybody knew a way I might achieve what could essentially be described as mounting an sftp ``export''? Maybe I could specify an argument that sets the logical root? So: mount_sftp --root=/home/lewiz foo.bar.com /remote_home Hmm, with that security level, I wonder how they will handle NFS. Basically you have to ask the folks administering your systems if they allow NFS and I doubt it already. would provide /home/lewiz on foo.bar.com at /remote_host? Is this possible in any way at all? It is, as above. Or can anybody suggest any other way I might achieve something similar? Bear in mind I am actually restricted to sftp/ssh. Forget your ideas. Tell us what it is that you want to be doing. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington[EMAIL PROTECTED] Zzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 + Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how ___not to. So it is with the great programmers. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sftp mount?
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: * Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031107 17:28]: wrote: At my university everything is firewalled and the only way I can transfer files to/from my account is to use sftp -- but that gets quite painful after a while. What do you mean by quite painful? sftp should be very easy to use Yeah, it is fairly easy to use but it's still annoying to be doing it. In reality what I want is to edit the remote files directly. I don't want to be copying back/forth. It can't really be automated either, since I'm not doing the same task over and over. Basically you have to ask the folks administering your systems if they allow NFS and I doubt it already. No, they don't. Pretty much the only thing allowed is ssh/sftp. Or can anybody suggest any other way I might achieve something similar? Bear in mind I am actually restricted to sftp/ssh. Forget your ideas. Tell us what it is that you want to be doing. I want my remote home directory (available just by ssh) to be transparently available from a local directory :P Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sftp mount?
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 01:31, Lewis Thompson wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: * Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031107 17:28]: wrote: At my university everything is firewalled and the only way I can transfer files to/from my account is to use sftp -- but that gets quite painful after a while. What do you mean by quite painful? sftp should be very easy to use Yeah, it is fairly easy to use but it's still annoying to be doing it. In reality what I want is to edit the remote files directly. I don't want to be copying back/forth. It can't really be automated either, since I'm not doing the same task over and over. Am I missing something? To edit the remote files *directly*, login via ssh and edit. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sftp mount?
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:22:57AM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 01:31, Lewis Thompson wrote: Yeah, it is fairly easy to use but it's still annoying to be doing it. In reality what I want is to edit the remote files directly. I don't want to be copying back/forth. It can't really be automated either, since I'm not doing the same task over and over. Am I missing something? To edit the remote files *directly*, login via ssh and edit. Hehe. I'm hacking java stuff and I have no X11 forwarding (well, I actually do but it's horrendously slow ;). Thanks, -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sftp mount?
Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: * Lewis Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031107 17:28]: wrote: At my university everything is firewalled and the only way I can transfer files to/from my account is to use sftp -- but that gets quite painful after a while. What do you mean by quite painful? sftp should be very easy to use Yeah, it is fairly easy to use but it's still annoying to be doing it. In reality what I want is to edit the remote files directly. I don't want to be copying back/forth. It can't really be automated either, since I'm not doing the same task over and over. rdist (or something like it) would automate the whole copy process pretty well, though. Basically you have to ask the folks administering your systems if they allow NFS and I doubt it already. No, they don't. Pretty much the only thing allowed is ssh/sftp. If port forwarding is available/allowed, you could forward NFS through ssh. Might be a little painful unless the connection is fast and dependable, though. Or can anybody suggest any other way I might achieve something similar? Bear in mind I am actually restricted to sftp/ssh. Forget your ideas. Tell us what it is that you want to be doing. I want my remote home directory (available just by ssh) to be transparently available from a local directory :P Copying a whole directory tree is pretty easy, especially with tool support, it's transparent while you're doing the editing, and you get full speed while you're editing. That would be my recommendation. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
