SSHFS

So today I found a lovely bit of goodness for mounting a remote server as a folder using ssh!

its called SSHFS - and does what I just said.

Heres how to install/use it

first install it
"sudo apt-get install sshfs"

then make sure you can ssh to the remote server
"ssh username@remoteserver.org"

then make a mount point
"sudo mkdir /media/remote"

now mount the remote folder liek so

"sshfs username@remoteserver.org:/var/www /media/remote" -p 22"

two things there..the /var/www/ is the director you want to mount...and the -p 22 isnt needed as the default is 22, but i wanted to show you where to put the port number if you use something different.

and thats it...
just "cd /media/remote" and your sorted!

:)