Mount File System Remotely using SSHFS

Janus Sanders

I am trying to mount the onion's remote file system using sshfs over my network. I'm using the following command from my linux terminal:

sshfs root@192.168.1.3/: /mnt/onion -o allow_other

It connects successfully and asks for the password: onioneer

Then, I receive the message: "remote host has disconnected". I have also tried the directory /usr with no luck. I have successfully ssh'ed into the onion so remote connection is not the issue.

thoughts?

Massimiliano della Rovere

I do not have the onion here at work with me, but there is at least one error in your sshfs string:
the slash must be after the colon.

sshfs root@192.168.1.3 /mnt/onion -o allow_other

and not

sshfs root@192.168.1.3/: /mnt/onion -o allow_other

Also sshfs is really slow: http://wdtvforum.com/main/index.php?topic=5393.0
It'd use it for temporary acts, but in general you should definitely have a look to NFS or Samba.

@Janus-Sanders said:

Johannes Zellner

did you

opkg install openssh-sftp-server

Janus Sanders

@Johannes-Zellner I ran the command opkg install openssh-sftp-server and it crashed the system. After a factory reset, I could no longer connect to my home network and have been working for hours to restore it.

Lucky, I have a second Onion in which I ftp'ed successfully into it without installing additional packages. This seems to be the best route for moving packages and files to/from the onion at this point.

Thanks for your help.

Johannes Zellner

@Janus-Sanders oops, I'm very sorry about that. But...

I can't really believe that installing a package "crashes" the omega so that it needs a factory reset
openssh-sftp-server is the package you need for sshfs

I use sshfs with the omega since a few months w/o problems and with different versions of the operating system (currently b266).

Janus Sanders

@Johannes-Zellner I think you're correct. Sorry for the rash explination about crashing. I don't think that's what happened. From further research, I think there's an issue with losing configuration settings and possibly system dependancies in /etc when a factory reset is performed.

At this point, I'm not really sure what happened and I'm in the process of rebuilding the system. Good to hear that you've had success with sshfs!

Boken Lin

Hi @Janus-Sanders, hmmm, installing a package on the Omega shouldn't crash it... Can you give us a little bit more description on what happened? This way we might be able to figure out what the issue might be and hopefully resolve it in the future.

Thanks!