Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:28:01AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
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> On Apr 23, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
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> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:03:00PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> >> I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having to mount it, but I need to do more than that.
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> >> I want to be able to access either Java classes or an executable on a shared volume on a server without having to mount the volume on the local system. (There are a couple reasons for not wanting to mount.) I know on Windows I can list the files on an SMB share on another system and access them using SMB/CIFS by just specifying the volume properly on the command line. I want to do something like that on Linux, but do more than just listing the files or copying them to the local computer.
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> >> I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which could be SMB or NFS (or something else) without mounting the volume. For example, if I'm on System A and I have an executable on System B, and it's on a network share on System B, is there any way to run that executable without mounting that share as a volume on System A?
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> > Here's a possible workaround. It involves mounting, but as a regular
> > user.
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> > I'd use sshfs. The remote server needs to have an ssh server running.
> > Then you can run this:
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> > sshfs remoteserver:/some/path localdir
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> > Then you can ls localdir, or operate on any of the files there.
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> > If you use public key authentication and ssh-add, you can do this
> > without needing to enter a password.
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> > I've never used this to access a non-linux machine, but in theory it
> > should work on anything that is running an ssh server.
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> That is mounting, but, as I mentioned in another email, clients that use Linux on a desktop are a lot easier to deal with on these things than Windows users.
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> I still have to test on Windows to be sure that I can actually run a jar from an unmounted SMB share. I can operate on files like that, so I would think I can run a jar that way.
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> sshfs sounds like a good idea and I'll look into it. That would work on both the Mac and Linux.
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> Thanks!
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I'm not sure if cygwin has sshfs available, but if it does then you
could use sshfs from a Windows box.
-Rob
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