open remote file locally?

[Gabriel Gunderson]

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 22:46 -0600, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> Is it possible to open a file on remote server as if it were local?  
> For example, you can SSH into a different box and then read the  
> contents of a file with vi, but is there a way view the file in one  
> step without SSH-ing into the remote box first? Can this be done with
> tunneling?

Try sshfs.

http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

"This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol.
Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to
set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do.  On the client
side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the server with
ssh."

or

Nautilus understands this location:
"ssh://user@host.tld:22/home/user"

Don't know if that helps or not.


Gabe