trouble to connecting to remote file system using sshfs

Question

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!

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

sudo adduser YourUsernameHere fuse

that should make the files visible to you.