Date: 07 Nov 2003 21:31:29 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sftp mount? Message-ID: <44ptg37fr2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031107150119.GA1123@lewiz.org> References: <20031107142750.GA833@lewiz.org> <20031107145643.GB87381@ns2.wananchi.com> <20031107150119.GA1123@lewiz.org>
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Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> writes: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > * Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> [20031107 17:28]: wrote: > > > At my university everything is firewalled and the only way I can > > > transfer files to/from my account is to use sftp -- but that gets quite > > > painful after a while. > > > > What do you mean by quite painful? sftp should be very easy to use > > Yeah, it is fairly easy to use but it's still annoying to be doing it. > In reality what I want is to edit the remote files directly. I don't > want to be copying back/forth. It can't really be automated either, > since I'm not doing the same task over and over. rdist (or something like it) would automate the whole copy process pretty well, though. > > Basically you have to ask the folks administering your systems if they > > allow NFS and I doubt it already. > > No, they don't. Pretty much the only thing allowed is ssh/sftp. If port forwarding is available/allowed, you could forward NFS through ssh. Might be a little painful unless the connection is fast and dependable, though. > > > Or can anybody suggest any other way I might achieve something similar? > > > Bear in mind I am actually restricted to sftp/ssh. > > > > Forget your ideas. Tell us what it is that you want to be doing. > > I want my remote home directory (available just by ssh) to be > transparently available from a local directory :P Copying a whole directory tree is pretty easy, especially with tool support, it's transparent while you're doing the editing, and you get full speed while you're editing. That would be my recommendation.
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