In many cases it can become cumbersome to transfer files to and from a droplet. Imagine a development usage scenario where you are coding apps remotely and find yourself uploading a script repeatedly to your virtual server to test. This can become quite a hassle in a very short period of time.
Luckily there is a way to mount your VPS file system to your local computer so you can make changes on the fly and treat your droplet as local storage. In this article, we will show you how to do exactly that. On Ubuntu and Debian based systems it can be installed through apt-get. A direct download link can be found below. After you have downloaded the package, double click to launch the installer.
You may be prompted to download additional files, if so the installer will download the. NET Framework 4. Instructions for Windows systems can be found at the bottom of the tutorial.
Now we can use sshfs to mount the file system locally with the following command. If your VPS was created with a password login the following command will do the trick. If your droplet is configured for login via ssh key authorization, you will need to tell sshfs to use your public keys with the following command. You will be asked to enter the passphrase you used during the creation of your keys with ssh-keygen.
Now you can work with files on your droplet as if it were a physical device attached to your local machine. And we're done! Note: I have been using UC FileSpace from my Desktop for several months and have not suffered any adverse consequences.
This may be because I learned early on that if your internet goes down or your computer otherwise fails to reconnect to UC's server, DO NOT select "Try again" when you get the Connect Failed dialog box.
Always "Force Eject" and run the connect application again once you have a steady internet connection. In my experience, "Try again" often causes Finder to crash, requiring a hard reset of your computer. Thursday, December 3, Trip to Taiwan. I've visited Taiwan a few times, each time taking photos and keeping a journal of my experiences. They do great work, and I enjoy making flash cards while I listen to the daily podcasts.
I thought I'd start putting them on my website just for fun and to keep me making cards on a regular basis. Friday, March 6, Javascript Date Formatter. I wrote a very simple date formatter for displaying the post time of my latest tweet on my homepage. On Debian-based systems, the package is simply sshfs. 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:.
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. 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:.
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:.
In most cases, the default sshfs command can be used as-is, but sshfs is far from a simple command. Check out the sshfs manual man sshfs for more details on what is available. One of the most useful options, however, is reconnect , which allows the client to re-establish the connection to the remote system it is interrupted:. Use the normal fstab syntax, including any options required, and use sshfs in place of the file system type:.
Lately, after some Snow Leopard system updates and MacPorts selfupdate, I have been able to even sleep the computer and wake it with no mount problem.
This has worked in both bit and bit modes. So I would say this issue can be closed. I click the mount button, and get: fail to mount with error message: "Could not mount filesystem: Authentication has failed. I will try that again when the problem again appears.
It is intermittent, sometimes appearing after sleep. I've probably seen the issue about ten times in the past two months. Thanks I thought I'd replied to the queries above - sorry my bad! So far so good with MacFusion. Very sorry for forgetting about this thread - yes afaik it can be closed, as you have done: So far, MacFusion has been working fine. Although, I have not used it heavily for a long time. I may be using it more soon though.
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