Mounting SFTP and FTP shares
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This article deals with Filesystem in USErspace (FUSE) and (CurlFtpFS). The first enables the user to mount all kinds of filesystems (including SSH and FTP) at a local mountpoint. CurlFtpFS is a filesystem for acessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl.
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[edit] Installing and using FUSE
Make sure you have Filesystem in Userspace support enabled in your kernel:
| Linux Kernel Configuration: I was using 2.6.26-gentoo-r3 |
File systems --->
<M> Filesystem in Userspace support
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Both, sshfs and CurlFTPFS, have FUSE as dependency. It is easy in installation. Simply:
Then:
and make sure fuse is in modules.autoload:
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To mount a remote host's file system through SSH at a local mount point, all you have to do is type:
To allow access to mountpoint for non-root users simply execute:
To unmount a remote host's file system type:
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Installing CurlFtpFS:
CurlFtpFS uses typical FTP syntax:
To unmount an ftp host:
A better way is use mount and umount. To do this the following lines need to be added to /etc/fstab:
curlftpfs#user:password@server.tld/remote/path /mount/point fuse user,disable_eprt,noauto curlftpfs#user:password@server.tld/remote/path /mount/point fuse.curlftpfs user,disable_eprt,noauto
The first line allows mount to work, the second umount to work. Additional options are:
User and password : ftp://user:password@ftp.gentoo.org/
Specific port : ftp://ftp.gentoo.org:8585
Now, you should be able to:
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[edit] Automounting
Automounting is an even better method. The following is a setup for automounting removable media on an Xterminal. On the terminal
/home/ftp/auto /etc/autofs/auto.misc --timeout=1 --ghost
cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro :/dev/sr0 floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0 usb-storage -fstype=auto,umask=000 :/dev/sda1
So, it sets up the automounts in FTP's home. Establish FTP and test the automounting by FTPing to the Xterminal's FTP server.
On the application server
/mnt/removables /etc/autofs/auto.misc --timeout=2 --ghost
usb-storage -fstype=curl,allow_other :ftp\://anonymous\:PASSWORD\@mr-muddle/usb-storage floppy -fstype=curl,allow_other :ftp\://anonymous\:PASSWORD\@mr-muddle/floppy cdrom -fstype=curl,allow_other :ftp\://anonymous\:PASSWORD\@mr-muddle/cdrom images -fstype=curl,proxy=http\://192.168.1.1\:3128 :ftp.vwx.yz/images
Automount won't understand fstype=curl without the following files:
#! /bin/sh curlftpfs $1 $2 -o allow_other,disable_eprt $3
#! /bin/sh fusermount -u $1
