[GRLUG] Is there a Linux equivalent to network folders

john-thomas richards jtr at jrichards.org
Tue Sep 5 07:03:02 EDT 2006


On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 11:40:35AM -0400, Topher wrote:
> Bill Creswell wrote:
> > I am sure the name may be different, since I didn't find anything like
> > it by googling.
> > 
> > I would like to have an ftp folder that acts like a drive, so that I
> > could open a file on the server with Screem, instead of downloading the
> > file, saving it and uploading it.
> 
> The best I've found is sshfs.  Basically you can mount a remote
> filesystem over ssh.
> 
[snip]

What about NFS?  If both client and server are running Linux, why not use a
network filesystem?  Once mounted, it acts just like a local filesystem.
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