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

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