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