Sysop:SSHFS

With SSHFS you can mount any file system on a remote host over a SSH secured connection to your local host.

Gui / Linux

You can mount a directory over SSHFS using the Gnome "Connect to Server" tool in the desktop Places menu.

Guides

• http://www.howtoforge.com/mounting-remote-directories-with-sshfs-on-ubuntu-11.10
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS

prerequisits

• Remote host must run the ssh daemon
• Successful authentication with the remote host
• FUSE kernel module installed on local host, have the right as user to load FUSE file systems (=be in group fuse)
• SSHFS tools installed

Packages

For SSHFS tools you need the following packages: sshfs, fuse-utils and libfuse2

On Debian/Ubuntu:

apt-get install sshfs

the other two are dependencies

Mount

sshfs remoteuser@remotehost:/path/to/remote_dir local_mountpoint

Umount

fusermount -u local_mountpoint

Links

• http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/28/how-to-mount-a-remote-ssh-filesystem-using-sshfs/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS