From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 07:01:28 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 F211A16A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 07:01:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from cloudburst.umist.ac.uk (cloudburst.umist.ac.uk [130.88.119.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6027343FBF for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 07:01:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lewiz@black.lewiz.org) Received: from lh014.halls.umist.ac.uk ([130.88.163.14] helo=yellow.lewiz.org) by cloudburst.umist.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AI86z-0008J6-IK; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:01:21 +0000 Received: from black.lewiz.org ([192.168.0.12]) by mail.lewiz.org with smtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD 4.9) id 1AI87R-000NdU-4O; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:01:49 +0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 1211 invoked by uid 4001); Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:01:19 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:01:19 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson To: Odhiambo Washington Message-ID: <20031107150119.GA1123@lewiz.org> References: <20031107142750.GA833@lewiz.org> <20031107145643.GB87381@ns2.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031107145643.GB87381@ns2.wananchi.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: sftp mount? 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, 07 Nov 2003 15:01:28 -0000 --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Lewis Thompson [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. >=20 > 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. > 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. > > Or can anybody suggest any other way I might achieve something similar? > > Bear in mind I am actually restricted to sftp/ssh. >=20 > 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 Thanks very much, -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/q7O/Itq0KFQv7T8RAgurAJ4imX4rKrjrlImNlo+MXPGR+NNjLACgvj5W a8/636Fy4gd1tRUjUfl2Ans= =x7pz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/--