Comments on: How to Mount a Remote Folder using SSH on Ubuntu

By: Spudley

Spudley — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:35:40 +0000

Ah, this is very useful.

I’ve been using KDE’s fish:// protocol to achieve the same result, which is really excellent, but was causing me a few problems — I needed to use SVN in the remote folders, and I wanted to use KDE’s other wonderful plugin, kdesvn, but you can’t combine kdesvn with fish.

The good news is that I can combine kdesvn with sshfs, so thanks to this article I can now manage my SVN area. Yay!

By: Alek_86

Alek_86 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:04:27 +0000

Linux … never sieze to amaze you!

My boss is so happy cause I use this helpful sshfs to cut down time for transfering from an old server to newone!

Thanks a lot!

By: thegreedyturtle

thegreedyturtle — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:44:19 +0000

This is incredibly useful for someone that works on multiple linux servers. Ideally though, I’d like to lock the folder, preferably with a gksu type login, although since it’s set to be under my own user, it wouldn’t work quite like that.

I’m also wondering if i have this mounted in an area that is indexed, will I be able to search within the mounted folders with my own machine?

By: yungchin

yungchin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:41:57 +0000

Thanks for this.
Actually, on my Ubuntu 8.04 system I found that sshfs was already installed, and the fuse module was already loaded (and I don’t have NTFS partitions?!). Even the group membership was already properly configured!
Nonetheless, a useful walk-through!

By: Walter

Walter — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:36:38 +0000

To unmount, use:

fusermount -u /path/to/local/mountpoint

You would’ve seen this had you read the manual, using:

man sshfs

By: Walter

Walter — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:32:53 +0000

All:

The line:

sudo chmod +x /dev/fusermount

should probably be

sudo chmod +x /dev/fuse

and NOT:

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/fusermount

as some others have suggested. The latter suggestion is meaningless, since /usr/bin/fusermount is already executable by default, and the command makes the file “fusermount” executable, which it already is. Furthermore the prior command is to do with setting up /dev/fuse so it makes perfect sense that the chmod is a continuation of this. BTW, with the above correction, this howto works fine for me.

By: bansidhar

bansidhar — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:55:30 +0000

in my previons comment please read the line

#sshfs -o allow_other @:/remotepath ~/remoteserv

#sshfs -o allow_other username@ipaddress:/remotepath ~/remoteserv

By: bansidhar

bansidhar — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:51:14 +0000

I installed it on Fedora 7. Required me only the following steps.

#yum install sshfs
#modprobe fuse
#sshfs -o allow_other @:/remotepath ~/remoteserv

I did su before installing because I cannot sudo
This works like a charm for me

By: Agustin

Agustin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:32:40 +0000

Works fine, but I think there a little mistake.
sudo chmod +wx /dev/fuse ?
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/fusermount ?

By: av

av — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:49:07 +0000

It works. But How to unmount?