trouble to connecting to remote file system using sshfs

I'm a first time user of sshfs, trying to use it to give myself access to a remote file system.

$ sudo sshfs username@servername.edu:/home/csg/username/low /local/servername

When I issue this command, everything seems to work fine, but I don't get any sort of directory access in my /local/servername folder. Anybody know what I need to do next? Or have some good documentation on how to use this?

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04.

Thanks!

Carl

Posted 2009-09-29T04:47:45.963

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did you add your username to the fuse group? – John T – 2009-09-29T04:52:28.560

@john 'sudo' .. what more rights does he need? – akira – 2009-09-29T05:15:31.943

@carl: what does 'mount | grep servername' give you? is it at least mounted correctly? – akira – 2009-09-29T05:18:25.793

@akira, it returns nothing – None – 2009-09-29T21:56:10.330

then it looks like 'everything seems to work fine' is a false claim :) 'mount' should list all (including fused handled) mounted nodes. i would look into that problem first – akira – 2009-09-30T06:54:18.787

Answers

You have issued the sshfs command with sudo - which means the files mounted under /local/servername are only readable by root.

So you'll either need to do 'sudo bash' to get a root prompt which will allow you to browse it's content, or you need to do as John T suggested in the comments, and make sure your own user is a member of the 'fuse' group, and then NOT use the sudo prefix when issuing the sshfs command.

Note: Should you choose the latter option (and you should) you will find out that the mounted file system's contents are not visible to root either. FUSE mounted file systems are very user specific.

GodEater

Posted 2009-09-29T04:47:45.963

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i dont think its a problem of "permissions" but rather a "nothing is mounted and thus nothing can be accessed" problem. – akira – 2009-09-30T06:56:59.997

By default fuse file systems are only accessible to the user that mounted them. By doing sudo, this is effectively the root user.
Try just mounting it as your user (without sudo) or with -o allow_other (but this needs to be enabled in /etc/fuse.conf).

Deanna

Posted 2009-09-29T04:47:45.963

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You can add your username to the group fuse like so:

sudo adduser YourUsernameHere fuse

that should make the files visible to you.

John T

Posted 2009-09-29T04:47:45.963

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