The SSH client is a part of Windows 10, but it’s an “optional feature” that isn’t installed by default. To install it, head to Settings Apps and click “Manage optional features” under Apps & features. Click “Add a feature” at the top of the list of installed features. # mount /home/sshfs/home/sshfs/vision. The client side. You will need a kernel that supports automounting and has FUSE support. Look in the filesystems section. As I run Gentoo Linux, the following installs the latest autofs # echo net-fs/autofs /etc/portage/package.keywords # emerge net-fs/autofs sys-fs/sshfs-fuse.
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Learn how to securely mount a remote file system from another server locally on your machine with SSHFS.
SSHFS itself is a file system in user space (FUSE) that uses the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to mount a remote file system. The
sshfs
command is a client tool for using SSHFS to mount a remote file system from another server locally on your machine.More Linux resources
Note:User space (or userland) is all operating system code that runs outside of the Kernel.
While not as performant as a local file system,
sshfs
is an easy way to work with files on another computer using local programs and tools. Best of all, sshfs
can be used by non-privileged users on the local machine (in fact, it is recommended to not be root or to elevate one’s privileges while using sshfs
), and it requires no special software on the remote machine other than SSH with SFTP enabled—a common setup.Installing sshfs
The
sshfs
tool is available from most distributions’ standard repositories and is most easily installed using that distribution’s package manager. For Fedora, installing sshfs
is as easy as: dnf install fuse-sshfs
. On Debian-based systems, the package is simply sshfs
.Mounting a remote file system
Once
sshfs
is installed, mounting a remote file system safely over SSH is simple. According to the sshfs
manual page (man sshfs
), the syntax for the command is: Windows 10 Sshfs
That syntax should look familiar to anyone who has used SSH or SCP before.
Let’s take a look at
sshfs
in action. First, create (or select an existing) directory to use as a mount point. Note that the local user invoking the sshfs
command must have write access to the mount point. As use of the root account is discouraged, that policy might make using ~/mnt
preferable to /mnt
. Then, it is just a matter of using the sshfs
command to connect to the remote machine using your SSH credentials, and specifying which remote location to mount to the mount point:Note: Fun fact,
sshfs
doesn’t expand ~
on a remote machine to the user’s home directory.Install Sshfs Client Ubuntu
The mounted file systems can be accessed and used the same way a local file system is, both from the command line or using other tools: