Comments on: Mount a remote file system through ssh Using sshfs

By: Emanuel

Emanuel — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:52:37 +0000

Here’s a tip for those who are puzzled as to why permissions might break, use the -o idmap=none option to disable mapping remote user id/group id from being applied to the local folder after mounting.

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:14:07 +0000

man sshfs:

SYNOPSIS
mounting
sshfs [user@]host:[dir] mountpoint [options]

tony’s reply is only true if your remote host and your local host require the same UID.

By: tony

tony — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:12:33 +0000

This is incorrent.
To ssh, one does user@ip.add.re.ss
but to sshfs one does
sshfs ip.add.re.ss:/remote/dir /local/mount/point

The username is not part of the sshfs command.
I know. I use that almost daily.

./tony

By: John H

John H — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:52:26 +0000

Hi there, thanks alot for this tip! I am using it in conjunction with mondo rescue so i can burn my ISOs from different computers (and also because the computer that I’m backing up doesn’t have a lot of disk space, or a DVDburner).

Once again, THANK YOU.

John H =D

By: HackITLinux

HackITLinux — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:37 +0000

How to securely mount a remote file system…

In last year's Linux Admin Tips entry, I mentioned FUSE, the open source Filesystem in Userspace project, and how it is used to mount remote file systems via SSH. Here's a tutorial on how to install and use it……