Dokan: FUSE SSHFS for Cygwin

Dokan appears to be a work in progress. Basically it is intended to allow users of Cygwin to connect a [secure] remote file system (using SSHFS) under Windows just as is possible under the *nixish operating systems & MacOS.

Note that the version of SSHFS we downloaded has a dependency on Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)/ This dependency is documented on the Dokan Download Page.

Note that we are installing this under WinXP w/ all current service packs, Cygwin, and ActiveState Perl.

Sticky Bits

4000 (the setuid bit)

Executable files with this bit set will run with effective uid set to the uid of the file owner. Directories with this bit set will force all files and sub-directories created in them to be owned by the directory owner and not by the uid of the creating process, if the underlying file system supports this feature

see chmod(2) and the suiddir option to mount(8).