sshfs?

[Dave_L]

[BC 3.2.1 on Ubuntu 10.04]

Does the FTP feature of BeyondCompare support sshfs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS)?

I've been establishing an sshfs mount outside of BC, using a shell command:

$ sshfs user@192.168.0.100:/home/user2 /tmp/xyz

and then using /tmp/xyz as one of the paths in a folder comparison session in BC.

I had been using password authentication, but switched to DSA public/private key pairs.

That works.

But I was wondering if I could accomplish the same thing with BC's FTP feature, without having to use the external command?

[Chris]

Hi Dave,

BC3 Pro should be able to connect directly to your SFTP server without using SSHFS.

When you browse for a folder in BC, go to the "FTP Site" tab, then select "SFTP (SSH2)" as the protocol type and enter your server information. You can also enter an SFTP url directly into a path edit in BC using the form: sftp://user:pass@server/folder/

[Dave_L]

Thanks, that works.

Although I had to add another / before the file system path:

sftp://user@server//folder/

(And I'm using a DSA keys instead of passwords.)