5 November 2009 0 Comments

Easy way of mounting remote media/folders with sshfs

Using ssh’s power it is very easy to mount remote folders. All you need to install sshfs package. It exist in the repository of Ubuntu. Don’t forget to add your user to Fuse group.

Step 1.

Install sshfs:

sudo apt-get install sshfs

Step 2.

Go to Ubuntu’s System -> Administrator -> Users and Groups

Add your user to fuse group.

Now you’re ready to mount remote folders. For example:

sshfs root@remoteip:/remote_path /home/user/Desktop/mnt

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