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+Remote Mounting Filesystems Through SSH
+=======================================
+:author: Aaron Ball
+:email: nullspoon@iohq.net
+
+Today I was wanting to edit a few image files on a remote machine. Now, when I
+typically need to transfer files across the internet, I will transfer them
+through sftp. I prefer this method simply because I already have an ssh server
+running on my target machine, so I don't need to install anything extra (such
+as ftp or samba).
+
+In light of this, I figured that since you can transfer files through an ssh
+tunnel, you must be able to remotely mount a file system through ssh.
+
+Enter sshfs
+
+I searched around a bit and the first thing I found was sshfs (ssh file
+system). It allows you to remotely mount files systems through ssh/fuse (yay).
+<pre> apt-get install sshfs </pre> Before we get around to actually mounting
+the remote filesystem, we need to change permissions on one thing so we can use
+this as a non-root user since we don't run GUIs as root (at least I hope you
+all don't). Let's add execute permissions for all to the fusermount command.
+
+----
+chmod +x /usr/bin/fusermount
+----
+
+Now that we have done that, we can proceed with mounting. I create a
+mount location in my home directory for ease of access.
+
+----
+mkdir ~/mount
+----
+
+Now that we have a place to mount our remote location,
+let's actually perform the dastardly deed.
+
+----
+sshfs <username>@<RemoteServer>:<RemotePath> <LocalMountPoint>
+----
+
+A good example of this is
+
+----
+sshfs jimneycricket@nowhereissomewhere:/home/jimneycricket ~/mount
+----
+
+It will ask you for a password. Supply the password and all should be well.
+Open up your file manager and navigate to \~/mount and you should see the files
+on your remote server (in this case, the home directory for jimneycricket).
+
+To unmount, you need to log in as root/sudo and run umount \~/mount.
+
+Finally, if you change the ports that ssh listens to on all of your ssh
+servers, you need to add one extra bit to the sshfs string. To connect to a
+port other than the default 22, put 
+
+----
+-p <port>
+----
+
+just after sshfs and you'll be set.
+
+Yay for seamless mounting!
+
+Category:Linux
+
+
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