Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting To Remote Servers
Have you considered either NFS or SMB? Grant On 30 Jul 2014 10:22, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I'd like to pick people's brains, if I may, on connecting to remote servers. My goal is to mount a remote server (another PC in my house) to a folder so that its contents can be used as if it were local data. SSHFS does this, but it is command line only. Gigolo, Nautilus and Nemo make it very easy to connect to a server but, as far as I can see, only using an SFTP connection. This means you can copy files backwards and forwards, but not use remote data as if it were local. I am very happy using SSHFS but others in my family are not safe to be let loose on the command line. I could write a script and place an icon on the desktop to run it but, before I do, is anybody aware of a GUI front end to SSHFS, or any tricks which might let me achieve my goals with Gigolo or Nautilus/Nemo? Thanks Nige -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting To Remote Servers
On 30 July 2014 10:22, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I'd like to pick people's brains, if I may, on connecting to remote servers. My goal is to mount a remote server (another PC in my house) to a folder so that its contents can be used as if it were local data. SSHFS does this, but it is command line only. Gigolo, Nautilus and Nemo make it very easy to connect to a server but, as far as I can see, only using an SFTP connection. This means you can copy files backwards and forwards, but not use remote data as if it were local. I am very happy using SSHFS but others in my family are not safe to be let loose on the command line. I could write a script and place an icon on the desktop to run it but, before I do, is anybody aware of a GUI front end to SSHFS, or any tricks which might let me achieve my goals with Gigolo or Nautilus/Nemo? SSHFS is just a filesystem and you should be able to open any file mounted over it on any device that supports it. The only issue you will have is persistence of your network connection. Essentially you use a URL like sshfs://server.name/path/to/file as a link and providing the connection is there it can be opened in the application that you define for it in the desktop icon. NFS is an alternative but it's actually less secure than sshfs now as it doesn't have native encryption, although it's better supported outside of the Linux desktop. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood TBA are particularly glib -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting To Remote Servers
On 30/07/14 10:22, Nigel Verity wrote: My goal is to mount a remote server (another PC in my house) to a folder so that its contents can be used as if it were local data. SSHFS does this, but it is command line only. Just stick the mount point in your fstab: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS Al -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting To Remote Servers
On 30/07/14 10:22, Nigel Verity wrote: Gigolo, Nautilus and Nemo make it very easy to connect to a server but, as far as I can see, only using an SFTP connection. This means you can copy files backwards and forwards, but not use remote data as if it were local. You /can/ open and use files this way. For example if I need to make quick changes to a text file on a remote server I will open it up in gEdit, make the changes and save. Here is a link to what I am talking about. Note everything is remote over SSH but acts as if its local via gvfs - http://i.imgur.com/AwnmOB2.jpg -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting To Remote Servers
On 30 July 2014 11:28, Grant Phillips-Sewell dcg...@phillips-sewell.co.uk wrote: Have you considered either NFS or SMB? That is more or less what I was going to say. It gives my hardcore-Unix-head friends the creeping horrors, but I usually use SMB (or as MS like to call it now, CIFS) rather than NFS -- I find it easier. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
