From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 17:16:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB0C216A4B3 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:16:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anon.securenym.net (anon.securenym.net [209.113.101.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584CA4400D for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:16:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dincht@securenym.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by anon.securenym.net (8.11.7/8.11.7) id h8Q0CHW14651 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.filtered; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:12:17 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200309260012.h8Q0CHW14651@anon.securenym.net> X-Securenym: dincht From: "C. Ulrich" To: Pascal Giannakakis In-Reply-To: <16834.1064478841@www9.gmx.net> References: <16834.1064478841@www9.gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: The Peter Jennings Fan Club Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:07:52 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount an ftp or ssh filesystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:16:47 -0000 On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 04:34, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > Hello, > > i'd like to mount remote ftp and ssh dirs into my local dir-tree, however > can't find info on that for FreeBSD. I can't find neither a port, nor something > for the kernel (like LUFS in Lunix). Other network-FSs are not an option. > BTW - If you wonder whats its use is: i would like to access the files i work > on with different programming tools seamlessly. > > Is it possible at all in FreeBSD 5.1? > > TIA I don't know for sure whether it's possible or not, but mounting a remote FTP directory onto a local mount point does not sound like a good idea. You said that other network filesystems are not an option, but then neither FTP or SSH (assuming you meant FTP tunnelled through SSH) are networking filesystems either. The two popular implemtations of network filesystems are NFS (Unix) and SMB (Unix via Samba, Windows). You should take a close look at those since you will get much better performance and security with them than by grafting an FTP directory to your filesystem. If you need this in order to do your job and don't have administrator access to the remote machine(s), then petition your system administrator to look into NFS or SMB. C. Ulrich -- http://bityard.net