sshfs and the connection reseting peer

gauthma · 2011-01-19 19:39:24

From the wiki, you read that to get more debug info, you do:

as in 'sshfs -o sshfs_debug user@server ...'

This most unhelpfully neglects to mention that in order to give it more than one option, you must separate them with commas! Like so:

[source]$ sshfs -o sshfs_debug,idmap=user <rest of command>[/source]

If you don't do that, and instead separate the options with like, say, spaces, you get in return the even more unhelpful message that "read: Connection reset by peer". This is a problem even you don't use debug if you use for instance, key authentication, or the idmap! And it all goes away by just using commas...

Next, I don't understand why the need to use sshfs as root... I've used it as root, and was unable to read anything of the remote folder as regular user on the local machine (yes, the local folder where the remote one was mounted had the right owner and permissions). And then I tried using it as a regular (non-root) user, and it just works!

Oh well, but it works now, and I suppose that that's what matters...

Inxsible · 2011-01-19 19:41:55

Its a wiki, if you find something wrong, then please correct it.

There is no point in posting a forum thread about a mistake in the wiki.

gauthma · 2011-01-19 19:46:23

I will do that, I just posted it here before to see if it was me doing something wrong (it's been known to happen )

steve___ · 2011-01-19 20:39:15

Have you tried mounting with fstab and using the 'users' setting ? I have this commented out in my /etc/fstab for reference:

sshfs#192.168.0.100:/home/user/foo /home/usr/foo  fuse  users,noauto,transform_symlinks,follow_symlinks,reconnect    0   0

I haven't tested sshfs as a user but I thought I would toss this out there.

Last edited by steve___ (2011-01-19 20:41:20)

gauthma · 2011-01-19 22:42:37

Indeed I have not. It is the first time using sshfs, so I just tried to get the "basic version" working But I'll definitely take at look at it tomorrow :-)

steve___ wrote:

Have you tried mounting with fstab and using the 'users' setting ? I have this commented out in my /etc/fstab for reference:
sshfs#192.168.0.100:/home/user/foo /home/usr/foo  fuse  users,noauto,transform_symlinks,follow_symlinks,reconnect    0   0
I haven't tested sshfs as a user but I thought I would toss this out there.

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#1 2011-01-19 19:39:24

sshfs and the connection reseting peer

#2 2011-01-19 19:41:55

Re: sshfs and the connection reseting peer

#3 2011-01-19 19:46:23

Re: sshfs and the connection reseting peer

#4 2011-01-19 20:39:15

Re: sshfs and the connection reseting peer

#5 2011-01-19 22:42:37

Re: sshfs and the connection reseting peer

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