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.

How to Mount a Remote SSH Filesystem using sshfs

Ran across this bit in the Ubuntu Wordpress Blog: How to Mount a Remote SSH Filesystem using sshfs

The sshfs can be used to mount and unmount remote file systems in user space over an SSH tunnel.

The sshfs program was not installed by default.

This program (sshfs) is relate to the FUSE user-space file system architecture.

1. create /media/<MOUNTPOINTNAME>
2. chown the newly created directory to belong to the current user
3. issue 'sshfs user@host:/path /media/<MOUNTPOINTNAME>' to mount the remote filesystem