HOWTO: Mount SSH Shares

[Chris Tucker]

Wow... thats all i can say after doing this myself.. i had a couple of folders totalling a few hundred pictures, on a different computer in the house, that i needed on my laptop... i had been looking for a reason to use sshfs, and i figured SCP would be a bit too long of a command to get all my files from there to here.... and Damn! its fast! even thumbnailing pictures that are 1mb each, over 54mbps wireless, .. it was the same as if the pictures were on this harddrive already!

My opinion: A HELL of a replacement to samba!. samba is incredibly slow compared to this
next thing for me to try is whatever nfs is... hmmm...

[sal]

i have followed all the steps in the hoiwto but i keep getting this message:
remote host has disconnected

do i have to add the share on my remote system?

any help thanks.

[jamesrw]

thnx! sshfs, why didnt I know before?

[Pausanias]

i have followed all the steps in the hoiwto but i keep getting this message:
remote host has disconnected

do i have to add the share on my remote system?

any help thanks.

I see you are using dapper. So am I. I used sshfs without problems in breezy but now it doesn't work in dapper.

As far as I can tell it's a problem with the kernel used with dapper. It seems the author of sshfs needs to update the software to deal with this issue. Quite a bummer, as I'm quite used to sshfs by now.

Someone else reported the same problem here and could only resolve it by downgrading the kernel:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...forum_id=47044

[Pausanias]

Someone else reported the same problem here and could only resolve it by downgrading the kernel:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...forum_id=47044

OK, user stupidity (mine) was at fault here. Apparently the disconnected message happens whenever the named host is nonexistent or unreachable. It should really say "host not found," but it says disconnected instead. So if you get that error message, make sure you are able to ssh in to the host exactly as it's being passed to sshfs.

[dmizer]

Thanks, it worked!

The only problem is that nautilus thinks that the ssh shares have 0kb free space, so I can't create new files. I can edit the old ones just fine though.. Does anyone have any ideas what could be done about this?

i also show 0 free space when mounting this way. i cannot create new files because my client thinks there is no freespace.

i am able to mount this way, and i am able to view the shares. it just shows 0 free space.

[dmizer]

found it. according to this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ight=fuse+free

this is a "glitch" in the sshfs and file transfer can be done by the cli only.

[reinibaerli]

I am using edgy and installed sshfs according to post #1 and I got an error, too:

fuse: failed to exec fusermount: Permission denied

So my solution was to

sudo chgrp fuse /dev/fuse

and it worked.

Can it be that this is a bug in the installation that should be reported?

Thanks,
Reinhard

[jetpeach]

anybody know how to get write access to a share? i tried adding to the sshfs command "-o uid=1000" where 1000 is my user id. it changed the user id of the folders in the mount to mine, but i still can't write to the directories

[Tomy]

From jonny's post #28

chmod 4755 /usr/bin/fusermount


Thanks, this solved my problems.

I am using Ubuntu Edgy and could only mount as root and had to access files from the CLI. Now things appear to work properly and I can mount as a user and use Nautilus.