Comments on: Mount a Remote Folder using SSH on Ubuntu

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:33:26 +0000

@milad a: You could use SSH key authentication so that it doesn’t need a password, instructions to do so are here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys

They are written for Ubuntu, but should work for any most distributions.

By: milad a

milad a — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:57:46 +0000

Hi, is there a way to enter the password without being prompted. Let’s say I wanna add “sshfs username@ipaddress:/remotepath ~/remoteserv” in fstab.. it wouldn’t work, would it?

By: JKT

JKT — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:57:10 +0000

In a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.0.4, the very first step, apt-get, yields “E: Unable to locate package sshfs”. What is the method to fix this?

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:45:45 +0000

Hi all,

Actually you doesn’t need sshfs to mount remote ssh folder, nautilus include this functionnality natively !

By: Rex

Rex — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:38:28 +0000

Thank you for this very useful article. for those whom it may concern, On Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, there is no need to install fuse, just apt-get install sshfs and issue the sshfs user@server/directory /path/to/local/directory command and it will work

Cheers,
Rex

By: manda

manda — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:46:45 +0000

in ubuntu 9.04 there’s no fuse module… so how can i do this tutorial in ubuntu 9.04

By: montanamax

montanamax — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:13:13 +0000

Awesome tutorial! I’m running kubuntu 8.10 and just completely skipped the sudo chmod +x /bin/fusermount step and everything worked great - thanks!

By: incd

incd — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:24:54 +0000

What you have to do is
1. on the remote server, chmod 777 the directory you wish to connect to
2. Create a mount point at local machine and chmod 777 it too
3. mount with sshfs

Do NOT chmod directories 777. It’s just plain stupidness. It really is not secure way.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:47:29 +0000

Also, if you want to get a hard drive icon (as if it were a local disk) on your desktop and on the places menu, create the local mount point in the /media folder.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:38:00 +0000

What you have to do is
1. on the remote server, chmod 777 the directory you wish to connect to
2. Create a mount point at local machine and chmod 777 it too
3. mount with sshfs

By: neil_olner

neil_olner — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:14:22 +0000

Finally got this to work after several attempts. In case others are having problems here’s some clarifications:

1.replace root in the following with your username: sudo chown root:fuse /dev/fuse
2. location of fusermount is /bin/fusermount (in kubuntu anyway), so use:
sudo chmod +x /bin/fusermount
or find it with whereis fusermount

Also, since I was not using the user I installed with I had to add give the user privs to use sudo first - search on SudoRoot above

Hope this helps!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:36:09 +0000

@ Audun,

The connect to server option in Gnome actually uses SFTP which is a subsystem of SSH. If SFTP is not enabled on the SSH server’s config file, you won’t be able to connect.

By: audun (from Norway)

audun (from Norway) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:11:20 +0000

I really don’t recommend this method, at least I had quite a few problems with it. I used sshfs to mount a server and had troubles with both file transfers and rights.

Both Nautilus (“Connect to server” in Ubuntu Gnome) and Konqueror support ssh for remote connections, and it works much better.

By: ben

ben — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:01:54 +0000

stan: you don’t need sshfs to do remove desktop type stuff with X over ssh.

probably the easiest way is to start another X session on the local machine and use it to run X in over ssh. this would all be from the text login (F1):

> X :1 &
> export DISPLAY=:1
> ssh -Y user@host
user@host> gnome-session &

then gnome should be running on display :1 (F9)

the only problem i’ve seen is when you quit the gnome session on the remote server gnome will likely leave some things running and you won’t be able to exit the ssh session with killing them. stuff like x-screensaver etc. i assume this would be similar with kde too.

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:05:06 +0000

Can you connect to Ubuntu via sshfs using the x-windows, I mean like remote desktopn in Windows, where you can control the pc remotely

By: kubaroz

kubaroz — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:27:50 +0000

instead of

sudo chmod +x /dev/fusermount

you should change permissions of another file:

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/fusermount

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:46:16 +0000

jan you need to replace username and ipaddress of ssh server

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:08:35 +0000

Hi, thx for the guide, however I have some questions, where you say “replace with your username”, do you mean to replace fuse with “yourusername”, and should it be the username of the ssh server?
Another question about the ip adress, shoud it be from your pc, or from the ssh server?