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Mount Remote Filesystems via SSH

Posted by michael on from the just-because-you-can dept.

eval writes "Ever wanted secure access to your files at work or school, but didn't have the necessary permissions or were thwarted by a firewall that allowed ssh access only? The SHFS kernel module allows you to mount directories from machines to which you have shell access. File operations are executed as shell commands on the server via SSH (or rsh). Caching keeps it reasonably fast, and remote commands are optimized based on the server's OS."

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  1. Adventure by LordKaT · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Woohoo! Now I can mount my linux system from the windows 98 network at my college and play Adventure! w00t! --LordKaT

  2. Snooze.. by Freston+Youseff · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We've had something superior to this for about five years now, it's called NFS, the Novell Files Shared. Get with the times people.

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  3. Re:LUFS! by Donald+Knuth · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It just so happens that a largish minority of the readers here seem to have some sort of manic inferiority complex, which drives them to post condesending and uninformed clap-trap unceasingly - mostly about projects and code they've never even bothered to look at.

    I imagine it's some sort of piss-poor substitute for feeling good about oneself, though we'd have to ask your parent article's author to be sure.

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    - M.C. Knuth

  4. Re:Great! [WOW] by Cokelee · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Or they just wouldn't install the module.

    Yeah, that'd pretty well make sense.