[ubuntu-uk] Connecting To Remote Servers

[Simon Greenwood]

On 30 July 2014 10:22, Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'd like to pick people's brains, if I may, on connecting to remote
> servers.
>
> My goal is to mount a remote server (another PC in my house) to a folder
> so that its contents can be used as if it were local data. SSHFS does this,
> but it is command line only.
>
> Gigolo, Nautilus and Nemo make it very easy to connect to a server but, as
> far as I can see, only using an SFTP connection. This means you can copy
> files backwards and forwards, but not use remote data as if it were local.
>
> I am very happy using SSHFS but others in my family are not safe to be let
> loose on the command line. I could write a script and place an icon on the
> desktop to run it but, before I do, is anybody aware of a GUI front end to
> SSHFS, or any tricks which might let me achieve my goals with Gigolo or
> Nautilus/Nemo?
>
>
SSHFS is just a filesystem and you should be able to open any file mounted
over it on any device that supports it. The only issue you will have is
persistence of your network connection. Essentially you use a URL like
sshfs://server.name/path/to/file as a link and providing the connection is
there it can be opened in the application that you define for it in the
desktop icon.

NFS is an alternative but it's actually less secure than sshfs now as it
doesn't have native encryption, although it's better supported outside of
the Linux desktop.

s/
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