SSHFS Network Shares made easy with SSH
SSHFS Network Shares made easy with SSH Overview SSHFS is a program that can use the SSH connection on a computer for mounting a network share / network drive from that target machine to your local computer. The great news is that you only need to install SSHFS on the computer which you are doing the mounting on , you do not need to change anything on the remote target computer. Put another way, if you want to mount your remote SSH machines harddrive on your local desktop, you only need to install SSHFS onto your desktop. This is particularly convenient when you dont have administrator control over the remote target client and cannot install extra software. SSHFS is running through an SSH connection (duh!), so your activity is as encrypted as your SSH connection is (which is pretty good if you use SSHv2, which you should be). SSHFS also inherents the permisssions of your SSH connection, so if you connect as a non-root user, you will be limited to the access that user account has. Insta...