From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 10:55:36 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 6789716A4B3 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E51A944034 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:55:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from capm@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 21873 invoked by uid 65534); 26 Sep 2003 17:55:31 -0000 Received: from xdsl-213-168-117-225.netcologne.de (EHLO gmx.net) (213.168.117.225) by mail.gmx.net (mp025) with SMTP; 26 Sep 2003 19:55:31 +0200 X-Authenticated: #945514 Message-ID: <3F747D99.7090409@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:55:37 +0200 From: Pascal Giannakakis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "C. Ulrich" References: <16834.1064478841@www9.gmx.net> <200309260012.h8Q0CHW14651@anon.securenym.net> In-Reply-To: <200309260012.h8Q0CHW14651@anon.securenym.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 17:55:36 -0000 C. Ulrich wrote: > 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 Of course you are right when you say there are better solutions for network-filesystems, and i use them when i have access to the server config. However most servers i work on are mass-products where your personal need for features is always answered by "upgrade your account". This, in turn, arises the need for some other (OS-level) solution.