Mounting disks on Notur systems

Linux systems: fusermount

On all (at least most) Linux systems you can mount your home directory(s) on all the Notur systems (on which you have an account on) so that they appear as a catalog on your own computer. Below follows a brief explanation on how to do this on a Red Hat / Fedora / CentOs system:

• Login as root on your machine.

• Install fuse-sshfs, with all the RPM's it depends on. If you are using YUM to update you SW, you only have to type the following command (rpmforge.repo must be enabled for Red Hat and CentOS, and fedodra-extras.repo must be enabled for Fedora):

	yum install fuse-sshfs

• Add your user name (the user name on your machine) to the fuse group:

	usermod -aG fuse <your-username>

• Log out from your machine "to activate" this new group membership. Then log in with your user name.

• Create a new directory / folder somewhere in you home directory / folder, with at name you associates with the system you like to mount up. For instance, if you like to mount up your home directory on Snowstorm you may like to name the directory 'snowstorm':

	mkdir snowstorm

• Then type the following command:

	sshfs snowstorm.uit.no: $HOME/snowstorm     (you will be prompted for your password on Snowstorm)

• Now your home directory on Snowstorm should be mounted up, and all your files on Snowstorm should be accessible from your local directory named snowstorm.

• This mounting will survive when you log out from your computer, but it will die if you reboot the computer. If the mounting dies you have to repeat the "sshfs step".

• If you like to remove this mounting you should type the following command:

	fusermount -u $HOME/snowstorm

Windows systems:

As we currently don't offer Samba connections we recommend our Windows users to use some of the drag and drop SSH / FTP clients that are available for Windows.

You might also want to take a look at SftpDrive. This will let you mount your home catalog on any system you have ssh access to as a local drive under windows.