Saturday, December 23, 2017

Invaluable goodies

Today Florian asked me to find some old pictures. As I was not home I quickly ssh-ed into my server. The problem was that on text interface I was not able to browse the pictures.

I remember that I have learnt some time ago about SSHFS, a filesystem implemented over SSH.
So the next step was quite clear. Mount the folder over SSHFS.
First step was to install OSX Fuse. Piece of cake - "brew cask install osxfuse" did the job.
Then I installed SSHFS by "brew install sshfs"
Then, obviously, "sshfs nilu@myprecious:/media/Pictures ./remotefs" and voila, I have a mounted share where I am able to browse. The speed was incredibly good, felt even better than browsing in the local LAN.


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