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sshfs ROX-filer Application

Description

This is a rox-filer Application Directory
Its purpose is to deal with sshfs for mounting and unmounting them. sshfs is a fuse system to mount filesystems over ssh
This application depends only on fuse and sshfs.
You can find the announce in french on my blog.

Download sshfs.tgz

Usage

You have to create some directories wich name will handle every needed informations for the mount. In rox-filer when you do a right click on thoses directories you have a menu entry that will allow you to mount and unmount the filesystem.
The directory name is of the form : 
   [user@]host[[:port]:remote_path]
Exemples:
Directory nameSSH UserSSH ServerServer PortRemote Directory
host.comcurrenthost.com22/
host.com:datacurrenthost.com22/data
jjl@host.comjjlhost.com22/
jjl@host.com:home_jjljjlhost.com22/home/jjl/
jjl@host.com:2222:home_jjljjlhost.com2222/home/jjl/

note that you cannot specify a port without a path.

Screenshots

ScreenshotPicture of the context menu
Integrated ssh-askpass windowssh-askpass
unmount confirmConfirmation dialog box before unmounting

Installation

  1. Extract to your application directory (eg: ~/Apps)
  2. Create a link in your SendTo directory (eg: ~/.choice/SendTo) for directories and mounts:
    ln -s ~/Apps/sshfs ~/.choice/SendTo/.inode_directory/
ln -s ~/Apps/sshfs ~/.choice/SendTo/.inode_mount-point/
    or via the Customize menu entry.
    This will associate the sshfs menu to directories in rox-filer

Configuration

The script search for 2 configuration files There is 3 parameters in section [General] :

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