Endorsement of a wonderful tool: SSHFS

[Brian Fahrlander]

    I have a trailer outside my Mom's home in which I live. Since she 
got back from the nursing home and hospital, I had to move inside. She 
needed constant care that I don't want to talk about. The problem is, my 
media's out there, and I'm in here.

    I looked at Samba, but it wasn't great at bandwidth, not to mention 
not a single machine in the house is Microsoft, so resolving 
issues...and sometimes names...required things I'm not used to doing.

    I was also a great fan of NFSv4 which isn't NEARLY as scary to set 
up, once you realize it has an insecure mode and doesn't require all the 
20-character terminology, resolved at MIT and others. Bandwith was 
great, though I knew it was, as the name implies, insecure.

    Then I crossed paths with SSHFS. If I have an ssh connection to the 
remote machine, including a login/password, I can share files from that 
machine.  And it's taking much more to write this message than it did to 
set it up! If you reach it by ssh, you can use it's files remotely!

    The resultant networking puts the remote machine's directories into 
a directory on the local machine, ready for you to use it in anyway you 
need, without complex firewall holes, special training or anything 
else.I really don't think I'll be using NFS or Samba again!

"Official" docs:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS

Those I also used:
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/28/how-to-mount-a-remote-ssh-filesystem-using-sshfs/

Enjoy!

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 Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
 Evansville, IN                                                         
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