Let's say I have two machines.

machine_local
machine_remote

machine_local is under my control (say my personal desktop). I have root
access to it (say root_local) and can pretty much do whatever I want on it.
It currently runs Debian. Let's say the user name on machine_local is
user_local.

machine_remote has huge hard drive space, contains user account user_remote.
However the problem is that machine_remote is maintained by some other
person (say root_remote) who is reluctant to install new software, provide
nfs access etc., Moreover, machine_remote is not running Debian but some
other Linux distribution (say Redhat 8).

My question is that

Without bothering root_remote and just using the ssh account
(user_remote) on machine_remote, would it be possible to use/mount those
files onto machine_local as if they were local files?

The advantage is that, I can run latest and greatest software on
machine_local and at the same time take advantage of facilities like huge
hard drive space, frequent backups etc., on machine_root.

Please note that running NFS server on machine_root is not an option, since
it would involve bothering root_remote for granting access to
machine_local.

Any other ideas/suggestions?

thanks
raju

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Hello Raju.

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi, 11.04.2007 21:24:
> Without bothering root_remote and just using the ssh account
> (user_remote) on machine_remote, would it be possible to use/mount those
> files onto machine_local as if they were local files?

Of course. Search for sshfs; it works just perfect.


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Mathias Brodala wrote:

> Hello Raju.
>
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi, 11.04.2007 21:24:
>> Without bothering root_remote and just using the ssh account
>> (user_remote) on machine_remote, would it be possible to use/mount those
>> files onto machine_local as if they were local files?
>
> Of course. Search for sshfs; it works just perfect.
>

This is just amazing! Works awesome! I wish I had known about it earlier. I
think it definitely deserver one of those Debian package-of-the-day
entries....

raju

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On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 15:24 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Let's say I have two machines.
>
> machine_local
> machine_remote
>
> machine_local is under my control (say my personal desktop). I have root
> access to it (say root_local) and can pretty much do whatever I want on it.
> It currently runs Debian. Let's say the user name on machine_local is
> user_local.
>
> machine_remote has huge hard drive space, contains user account user_remote.
> However the problem is that machine_remote is maintained by some other
> person (say root_remote) who is reluctant to install new software, provide
> nfs access etc., Moreover, machine_remote is not running Debian but some
> other Linux distribution (say Redhat 8).
>
> My question is that
>
> Without bothering root_remote and just using the ssh account
> (user_remote) on machine_remote, would it be possible to use/mount those
> files onto machine_local as if they were local files?
>
> The advantage is that, I can run latest and greatest software on
> machine_local and at the same time take advantage of facilities like huge
> hard drive space, frequent backups etc., on machine_root.
>
> Please note that running NFS server on machine_root is not an option, since
> it would involve bothering root_remote for granting access to
> machine_local.
>

sshfs or shfs as it is called now.

Works wonderfully and is completely userland controlled.

Works a charm over port 22.
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 05:04:29PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:

> This is just amazing! Works awesome! I wish I had known about it earlier. I
> think it definitely deserver one of those Debian package-of-the-day
> entries....

Not the same, but:

http://www.debian-administration.org/tag/sshfs

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