using remote files with local programs

2007-04-11 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Let's say I have two machines. machine_local machine_remote machine_local is under my control (say my personal desktop). I have root access to it (say root_local) and can pretty much do whatever I want on it. It currently runs Debian. Let's say the user name on machine_local is user_local. machi

Re: using remote files with local programs

2007-04-11 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Raju. Kamaraju S Kusumanchi, 11.04.2007 21:24: > Without bothering root_remote and just using the ssh account > (user_remote) on machine_remote, would it be possible to use/mount those > files onto machine_local as if they were local files? Of course. Search for sshfs; it works just per

Re: using remote files with local programs

2007-04-11 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Raju. > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi, 11.04.2007 21:24: >> Without bothering root_remote and just using the ssh account >> (user_remote) on machine_remote, would it be possible to use/mount those >> files onto machine_local as if they were local files? > > Of course

Re: using remote files with local programs

2007-04-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 15:24 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Let's say I have two machines. > > machine_local > machine_remote > > machine_local is under my control (say my personal desktop). I have root > access to it (say root_local) and can pretty much do whatever I want on it. > It curre

Re: using remote files with local programs

2007-04-11 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 05:04:29PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > This is just amazing! Works awesome! I wish I had known about it earlier. I > think it definitely deserver one of those Debian package-of-the-day > entries Not the same, but: http://www.debian-administration.o