Endorsement of a wonderful tool: SSHFS

[Brian Fahrlander]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>
>   
>>     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!
>>     
>
> Handy - but I use KDE and have been able to browse files via SSH for just-
> about-forever, using fish: or sftp:.  What do I gain from sshfs?
>   
    GNOME has the "connect to server" thing, too; but this makes the 
filesystem completely transparent so you can point things like 
Rythmnbox/Xine/Totem at the files and everything works without a hitch.  
Under the built-in methods most everything but Nautilus complains "not a 
real file system" or somesuch.

    I'm kinda hoping we move towards this tool, instead of the old way, 
sometime soon. If I open port 23 (in this case) I'd be able to browse 
and use my media from the laptop across town.  I'm kinda looking forward 
to that!

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 Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
 Evansville, IN                                                         
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