Endorsement of a wonderful tool: SSHFS

[Derek Broughton]

Chris Jones wrote:

> 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?
> 
> It mounts the remote file system like another file system, so is
> *completely* transparent to all applications. fish: or sftp: only work
> from within konqueuror and certain KDE apps. Anything can use sshfs. I
> tend to use mostly at the command line...  ;)

I think it was obvious I understood that - nevertheless, that doesn't add 
anything useful with KDE apps that handle kio slaves, but does require extra 
steps.  I already use nfs and cifs mounts in some situations, but I really 
prefer to avoid them if I can just use a kio slave.
-- 
derek