Remote host symlink, possible?

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Hi,

Is it possible to have symbolic links to a remote server? Via ftp, ftps, http, https, ssh or whatever else is required?

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Only via file sharing protocols like nfs or cifs.

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As ken yap mentions, symlinks need a local-looking filesystem to work.
URIs are what you’re after… something like ‘ftp://server/path/file.ext’.
Depending on your needs you could do this with a launcher (shortcut) on
your desktop. To do this in a way that can be programmatically accessed
you could use wget/curl/ftp (depending on the desired protocol and your
preferences).

Good luck.

On 01/07/2011 06:06 AM, ken yap wrote:
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> Only via file sharing protocols like nfs or cifs.
>
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On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:13:25 +0000, ab@novell.com wrote:

> As ken yap mentions, symlinks need a local-looking filesystem to work.
> URIs are what you’re after… something like
> ‘ftp://server/path/file.ext’.
> Depending on your needs you could do this with a launcher (shortcut) on
> your desktop. To do this in a way that can be programmatically accessed
> you could use wget/curl/ftp (depending on the desired protocol and your
> preferences).

I don’t know if it’d work, but the OP might look at using FUSE (with
something like curlftpfs or sshfs). With the caveat that FUSE
filesystems are not really meant for multiuser access, but that might be
a way to symlink to a directory on (say) an FTP server somewhere:
connect to it with curlftpfs and then create a symlink to the path on the
ftp server based on the mount point for the remote FTP server.

Not sure if that’ll work, but it might be worth a shot.

Jim

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Try sshfs.

  • install with:
    **zypper in sshfs
    ** - mount with:
    sshfs user@host: /mountpoint
  • unmount with:
    fusermount -u /mountpoint
  • symlink /mountpoint to whatever.
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On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:36:02 +0000, please try again wrote:

> Try sshfs.

But still with the caveat that it’s not designed for multiuser access -
that’s a limitation of FUSE; it doesn’t do any file locking on the remote
system, so if you have multiple users accessing it as a shared space, you
can cause file corruption using it.

Jim

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