[FreeNX-kNX] FUSE / SSHFS

[Murray Trainer]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 18:24, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> On Monday 12 December 2005 07:57, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Just discovered and tried out sshfs.
> > 
> > http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html
> 
> It needs a Kernel 2.6.14 or newer (or a patching and recompilation of
> a previous versions), and we can not (yet) assume that this Kernel is
> common.

> > It allows you to mount a remote filesystem locally via an ssh tunnel. 
> > Nothing needs to be done on the server end for it to work.  It seems to
> > work pretty well between Linux systems over a WAN.  Not sure if it works
> > on Windows under CYGWIN yet? f
> 
> No.

I saw a few bug reports regarding CYGWIN so someone is working on it :-)

> > I'm wondering if this may be a possible 
> > alternative to using Samba for NX/FreeNX file sharing. 
> 
> We'll be using the fish protocol (in the shape "nxfish") soon in FreeNX
> (but this will work only for KDE sessions from a client that has an SSH
> server running.
> 
> > Seems like it 
> > would be less problematic for users to setup than samba and maybe even
> > perform better.   
> 
> Right. Samba is still a pain to setup.
> 
> > One question I would have for anyone familiar with ssh/sshfs is whether
> > it would be possible on the server end to disallow direct ssh login
> > access for users while still allowing access to their files via
> > sshfs.         
> 
> Not sure right now. Can you just try it?

I'll let you know the sshd config if I get it working.
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