Steve Glendinning

I just discovered sshfs. This allows you to mount a remote filesystem using nothing at the server end other than a standard ssh server.

Once installer, as a non-root user you can just:

mkdir mnt
sshfs username@server.domain.com:/path mnt

Then you can access it, copy files etc (both directions) as if it were a local directory

ls mnt

When finished this disconnects it:

fusermount -u mnt

Found at http://home.prea.net/hacking/X2200/NFS

Using Putty to ssh onto a Debian machine, the “home” and “end” keys don’t behave well.  By default, both of these keys output a “~” character instead of moving the cursor to the beginning or end of the line.

I found the solution, it’s a simple change in Putty’s settings (Connection -> Data -> Terminal-type string).  By default this is set to “xterm” but changing it to “linux” fixes the home and end keys.