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sshfs is a FUSE filesystem for Linux which allows directories on remote machines accessible via SSH to be mounted locally.

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SSHFS: Transport endpoint not connected

There are a number of posts across the Stack Exchange sites relating to the issue in the title, but none seem to offer that great a solution. This post I guess is a shameless attempt to bump the issue (some of the others are a few years old now) and…
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use the arcfour cipher with sshfs and google cloud

I would like to use the arcfour cipher when mounting a drive using sshfs. However, if i specify sshfs -o Ciphers=arcfour my virtual machine resets the connection (I am able to sshfs without this option). Any way to make this work? I am doing this so…
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Unison sync of sshfs mount - what can go wrong if the connection breaks?

I am syncing a local directory (say "/local") with a cloud storage server using Unison. The cloud storage is mounted to, say, "/mnt" via sshfs (with no-cache option), and I sync the two directories /local and /mnt with Unison locally. [I don't have…
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How to run sshfs through ssh command?

I tried to run sshfs through ssh in one command. For example, if I do : $ ssh user@host user@host$ sshfs host:/src /target Everything is ok. Now, if I tried this in one command : ssh -t "sshfs host:/src /target" But not mounted point. By using…
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Why can't I setup an SSHFS share? "OSXFUSE file system is not available" error

I'm trying to setup an SSHFS share from my local machine to a remote machine, but it is not working. I'm getting the error OSXFUSE file system is not available (see below). How to fix this?? FYI, my local machine is a MacBook Pro laptop running OSX…
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How does `rm -rf` work

When I try rm -rf on a directory which has a lot of subdirectories and/or files and which is mounted with SSHFS, then I takes a while to execute. Is it normal ? I would like to know how rm -rf works internally, at the Files System level. Does it…
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Rackspace cloud sites to local server backup

I use rackspace cloud sites and don't have accsess to SSH or RSYNC on their servers, but I do access to SSHFS. I would like to be able to backup my cloud site to my local Ubuntu server, which has SSH, RSYNC etc. So far, I'm thinking the best way to…
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Any tricks for making sshfs authenticate only on write?

There is seemingly a trick for creating read-only sshfs logins with the read only attribute is enforced by the remote's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. You first create a program ~/.ssh/ro-sftp-server that runs sftp-server -R, which whatever other…
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sshfs multi users

I would like to use sshfs with many users. sshfs root@192.168.56.100:/ root/ With this command I get the whole file system in the directory root/. Is there any possibilities to change the user of a file when this user just exists on the remote…
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Rsync over SSHFS hangs

I have sshfs setup to connect to another system (Rackspace Cloud Sites) that I don't have ssh access to (but for some reason I can use sshfs? Go figure). I'm attempting to rsync files from the sshfs mount to my local disk. It's several thousand…
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Why does sshfs change permissions of the local mountpoint to root?

this is the command: pc@linux-vhvu:~> sshfs -o nonempty -o sshfs_debug root@XXXXXXXXXXXXX: ./dg SSHFS version 2.3 Password: Server version: 3 Extension: posix-rename@openssh.com <1> Extension: statvfs@openssh.com <2> Extension: fstatvfs@openssh.com…
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Central "/home" using SSHFS?

The standard way to setup a central "/home" directory on a Linux workstation is using NFS. The problem is that I don't like the lack of real security in NFS. So instead I want to try to use SSHFS. SSHFS in-and-of itself works fine, the problem is…
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Mixing NFSv4 all_squash and sshfs access

I have a problem with my server. In my internal network I hand out several network shares using NFSv4 from a Debian Squeeze server to my clients. These shares use the all_squash option because I want all users to be able to read and write to the…
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Quota on filesystem mounted via SSHFS

On client C, a directory from server S is mounted via SSHFS (authenticated as user U). The relevant filesystem on S has a quota set. How can a user on C see her quota? The quota command run on C displays nothing. Is there a way to make it work? S…
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SSHFS mount to AWS Transfer for SFTP: cannot create regular file

I'm trying to setup an SSHFS mount point via Amazon's new service Transfer for SFTP. I can sftp into the endpoint just fine using sftp and can get/put files. I can mount it using sshfs. I'm having problems where copying and moving files are showing…
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