From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 18:31:30 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 8F70916A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:31:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E4843F75 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:31:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 2E08D3AF9; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 21:31:29 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Lewis Thompson References: <20031107142750.GA833@lewiz.org> <20031107145643.GB87381@ns2.wananchi.com> <20031107150119.GA1123@lewiz.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 07 Nov 2003 21:31:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20031107150119.GA1123@lewiz.org> Message-ID: <44ptg37fr2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 02:31:30 -0000 Lewis Thompson writes: > 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. > > > > 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.