On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:28:01AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > 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! > I'm not sure if cygwin has sshfs available, but if it does then you could use sshfs from a Windows box.
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