Answers to: NFS over SSH. RPC Error

Answer by vorbote

vorbote — Thu, 19 May 2011 08:04:05 -0400

OK, NFS is a means to access remote files as local.

As I mentioned before, if you want to use NFS no matter what, you'll need to route it somehow and that boils down to using a VPN (my first choice in this case: OpenVPN). If you are not married to the idea of NFS, there are alternatives. For example, you can use sshfs, a FUSE driver that uses sftp to emulate a remote volume mount where you can do basic file operations: create, remove, edit, move, open, close, etc. It won't be as fast but it will get the job done. Even midnight commander over ssh, already mentioned here, is a good choice that I'd combine with zssh for quick file transfers if sftp is not an option.

Answer by sethbrown

sethbrown — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:27:23 -0400

I might be totally misunderstanding what you are driving at, since I have never used NFS in this way.

But if you have SSH access to the server where the files are, why not make things simple on yourself, and fire up mc (The Midnight Commander)?

Click on Right -> Shell link -> enter user@hostname and hit Enter.

It should either prompt you for a password, or if you have passwordless login setup, it should just give you access in the Right panel to the server.

Then, you can do whatever files operations you need to do.

Of course, if you are doing something fancier than this, just forget I said anything. :)

Answer by vorbote

vorbote — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:19:04 -0400

As you would have to map several ports simultanously, tunneling through ssh doesn't seem as a practical solution to me. Rather, I would use a VPN. You could even use a SSH VPN if the server on the target host is recent enough.

Answer by Sap

Sap — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:18:16 -0400

I can't use sshfs in my environment, does anyone have an answer to this one? I get the same error.

Answer by indienick

indienick — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:13:05 -0400

If I may ask, why are you trying to use NFS, tunneled through SSH?

Have you tried using SSHFS? All it requires, on the server end, is SSH.