====== Sshfs ======

= sshfs - Mount a remote directory locally over ssh =

In case you dont have samba on your remove server, in which case you could use [[smbmount]], there is sshfs which will allow you to mount directory on a remote server over ssh.

====== Install ======
 apt-get install sshfs
 modprobe fuse
 <nowiki>//</nowiki>if modprobe doesnt work - see below
 <nowiki>//</nowiki>You may have to add "fuse" into /etc/modules
  
 <nowiki>//</nowiki>by default for security reasons users cannot execute fusermount. Add select ones into the group fuse:
 adduser username fuse
 <nowiki>//</nowiki>the user may have to logout and log back in for the group permission to be picked up.

====== Syntax for Mounting ======
 sshfs user@remote.server.com: /home/user/remotefolder

===== Mounting Problems & Ownership =====
If your UID is different on the remote box, you might not have permissions to read or write to the locally mounted folder. The following should work, but didnt :-/
 sshfs -o uid=500,gid=500 me@myserver:/home/me /local/mount
Other things to try are shfsmount. Install it with apt-get install shfs-utils. It didnt work very far for me. Will get back to it again another time.

====== Syntax for UnMounting ======
 fusermount -u /home/user/remotefolder
 <nowiki>//</nowiki>logging out will also disconnect the remotefolder. It hung/didnt work for me however.

====== modprobe issues ======
If you are using a 2.4 kernel or something else, in which case the following returns a "Not found":
 modprobe fuse
The following steps need to be carried out:
 apt-get install module-assistant 
 apt-get install fuse-source
 cd /usr/src
 m-a prepare
 m-a a-i fuse
 depmod -ae $(uname -r)
 modprobe fuse

The above should add in the module fuse which is required. You may have to add "fuse" into /etc/modules

====== Update on sshfs ======
So I needed to use sshfs there recently. I was using debian lenny with a 2.6.26 kernel. All worked lovely. I had to add the option -o allow_others and then it worked a little better for what I was trying to do.

http://www.debianadmin.com/mount-a-remote-file-system-through-ssh-using-sshfs.html


====== Links ======
http://opensource.weblogsinc.com/2005/11/03/mount-remote-drives-via-ssh-with-sshfs/

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/65233-fuse-modprobe-help.html

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/28/how-to-mount-a-remote-ssh-filesystem-using-sshfs/