Re: LUG: Symbolic link for AFS directory - Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:38:22 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: Symbolic link for AFS directory

From : Shawn Taylor <taylorshawn@hotmail.[redacted]>

Date : Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:38:22 -0500

Try:

ln -s sftp://asarkar3:YOUR_PASSWORD@grendel.ece.ncsu.[redacted]/afs/unity.ncsu.edu/users/a/asarkar3/ AFShome

Shawn

> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:23 -0500
> Subject: Re: Symbolic link for AFS directory
> From: jpgoel@ncsu.[redacted]
> To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
>
> I'd try using sshfs. "apt-get install sshfs". (This uses FUSE - Filesystem
> in Userspace, with modules written to interconnect SSH and filesystem
> creation in userspace, which is way way cool.)
>
> Create the 'AFShome' directory (as your mountpoint).
>
> Then:
>
> $ sshfs jpgoel@remote-linux.eos.ncsu.[redacted]:/ncsu/jpgoel AFShome
>
> I think you can edit /etc/fstab to do this on boot. Of course you could
> alias the above command, eg "mountafs"
>
> Best,
>
> Jay
>
> PS. It didn't occur to me to do this for the past 4 years until you asked
> the question. Thanks!
>
>
> On Fri, March 12, 2010 9:17 pm, asarkar3@ncsu.[redacted] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I create a symbolic link for my AFS home directory on Ubuntu. I
> > tried:
> > ln -s
> > sftp://asarkar3@grendel.ece.ncsu.[redacted]/afs/unity.ncsu.edu/users/a/asarkar3/
> > AFShome
> >
> > but it says the path could not be found. However when I do a 'Connect to
> > Server' I am able to connect using the same path.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Anirban
> >
>

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