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Launch the “Sshfs Manager”, fill in your connection details, done! You now have a folder from your remote server mounted on your local Windows PC, under a drive letter that you chose. If it complains about being unable to install a driver, or similar, reboot your computer. SSHFS installation for Windows 10 relies on 2 open-source software available in Github.com. This section guides you through with the installation. HEADS UP: Like any other open-source software, they get updated frequently. Hence, you will need to search for the latest version rather than follow the version numbers specified in this guide. Installing SSHFS. On Ubuntu/Debian. SSHFS is Linux based software that needs to be installed on. SSHFS is one of those features you wish was built directly into Windows and with ExpanDrive now it is. ExpanDrive adds SFTP support directly into Finder and every other application on your PC. This isn't a pretty wrapper around vanilla SSHFS, ExpanDrive is a powerful custom solution we've. Is there a way to map an ssh share as a windows net drive? I have a mail server and I also use it for storage. Usually I mount my remote home dir using sshfs. On Linux I can use this remote directory from any app and store/retrieve files directly. On Windows I have to work locally and then upload or sync my files.
It is possible to mount your slot as a remote volume for file management in the same program you use for managing them on your local system. The advantage of this approach over other methods is that your /home folder on the server will be mounted as a local volume or share.
Openssh For Windows 10
Windows
SSHFS - WinFSP + SSHFS-Win
- Install the latest version of WinFSP
- Install the latest version of SSHFS-Win
- Open Windows Explorer and access
[email protected]
and enter your password when prompted. If this does not work, pressWin+R
and runnet.exe use X: [email protected]
instead, whereX:
is the drive letter you want to use for your slot. You will be prompted for your username and password.
SSHFS - Dokan (alternative)
- Install Dokan Library
- Install win-sshfs.
- Input
server.whatbox.ca
for Host,22
for the Port,user
for User, select the button next to Password, and input your password. - Change Directory to read
/home/user/
and select a drive letter that is not currently used by your computer. - Type in a name for your settings at the top and click Save to use your settings later.
- Click Mount and the drive will appear on your computer. Right-click on the tray icon to disconnect.
Note: Windows 8 or 8.1 will need to run the Dokan library installer in Windows 7 Compatibility mode.
Sshfs Windows Key
Mac OS X
Finder - FTP with explicit TLS
With the Finder focused, open Connect to Server.. from the Go menu. Type in
ftps://server.whatbox.ca/
and hit Connect. Entering your whatbox username and password will then allow you read-only access to your files through Finder. You will still need to use third-party SFTP/SSHFS software to access/mount your slot as read-write.SSHFS - Macfusion GUI
- Install FUSE for macOS. Check 'MacFUSE Compatibility Layer' in the installer when installing.
- Download Macfusion and copy it to the /Applications folder
- Connect to your slot via SSH in Terminal to accept the host key.
- Open Macfusion and click on + to add an SSHFS connection
- Input
server.whatbox.ca
forHost
,user
forUser Name
, input your slot password forPassword
and enter/home/user
forPath
. - Click on the
Macfusion
tab and set a mount point (for example,/Users/OSX-User-Name/whatbox
) and a volume name. - Click
OK
then clickMount
. If everything went correctly the volume will be visible on either the desktop and/or in the Finder sidebar (make sure to toggle 'Connected Servers' in Finder Preferences)
SSHFS - Command line (alternative)
- Install FUSE for macOS and SSHFS for macOS Control universal rca systemlink 3.
- Open Terminal and create a local mountpoint
mkdir ~/whatbox
- Mount your slot with
sshfs
. Once mounted, it will also be accessible in Finder.When you are done, you can use Finder or theumount
command to safely eject/unmount sshfs
Linux
Sshfs Windows Client
Nautilus
From the menu in Nautilus, open Connect to Server.. from the File menu. Type in
server.whatbox.ca
for the Server: and select either FTP (with login)
or SSH
. Entering your Whatbox username and password will then allow you to manage your files using Nautilus.SSHFS
- Install FUSE and sshfs through your distribution's package manager. On distributions based on Debian like Ubuntu/Kubuntu, open a terminal window and type
sudo apt-get install sshfs
- Add yourself to the fuse user group, if it exists.
sudo gpasswd -a $USER fuse
- If you had to re-add yourself to the fuse user group, log out and log back in.
- Create a local mountpoint:
mkdir ~/whatbox
- Mount:
sshfs -o idmap=user [email protected]: ~/whatbox
- Remote files will now be accessible through a file browser and applications in ~/whatbox
- You're probably going to want this to run every time you boot. You can only do so if you automatically log in via public key authentication. See here or here.Here is an init script for Ubuntu, place it in
/etc/init
aswhatbox.conf
. Search Google for how to make startup scripts for other distros if your distro doesn't use Upstart.
Sshfs Windows Manager
CurlFtpFS
FTP has often better performance than SSH, so if SSHFS does not work for you, try CurlFtpFS.
Follow this guide.
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I want to access a remote machine’s Unix filesystem via ssh, the way you’d do with sshfs and FUSE in Unix. There’s a lot of options for it.
- SFTPNetDrive, what I’m using now. Works simply out of the box. Free for personal use, $100 for commercial use.
Seems fine, Y: is now my remote disk. Has some reasonable customization options but nothing overwhelming. There’s an option to mount the disk as “Network, Removable, or Fixed”. I was hoping that could fake out WSL so that I could see the remote disk in the Ubuntu-on-Windows subsystem (which now supports removable disks). No such luck. - NetDrive, the big daddy commercial system. This provides interfaces for a whole bunch of cloud storage options: S3, OneDrive, etc. 30 day eval, then you pay $50
- ExpanDrive, another multi-service commercial option. $50
- sshfs-win using WinFSP. Open source FUSE-like solution. Looks promising.
- win-sshfs, a fork of an older project (keyword: Dokan). No commits for 9 months, but does have Windows 10 support so it’s not totally dead.