<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 July 2014 10:22, Nigel Verity <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nigelverity@hotmail.com" target="_blank">nigelverity@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
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I'd like to pick people's brains, if I may, on connecting to remote servers.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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://<a href="http://server.name/path/to/file">server.name/path/to/file</a> 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>
s/</div></div>-- <br>Twitter: @sfgreenwood<div>"TBA are particularly glib"<br></div>
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