SSHFS-Win · SSHFS for Windows

Install

SSHFS-Win is a minimal port of SSHFS to Windows. Under the hood it uses Cygwin for the POSIX environment and WinFsp for the FUSE functionality.

Installation

Install the latest version of WinFsp.
Install the latest version of SSHFS-Win. Choose the x64 or x86 installer according to your computer's architecture.

Basic Usage

Once you have installed WinFsp and SSHFS-Win you can map a network drive to a directory on an SSHFS host using Windows Explorer or the net use command.

Windows Explorer

In Windows Explorer select This PC > Map Network Drive and enter the desired drive letter and SSHFS path using the following UNC syntax:

\\sshfs\REMUSER@HOST[\PATH]

The first time you map a particular SSHFS path you will be prompted for the SSHFS username and password. You may choose to save these credentials with the Windows Credential Manager in which case you will not be prompted again.

In order to unmap the drive, right-click on the drive icon in Windows Explorer and select Disconnect.

Command Line

You can map a network drive from the command line using the net use command:

> net use X: \\sshfs\billziss@mac2018.local
The password is invalid for \\sshfs\billziss@mac2018.local.

Enter the user name for 'sshfs': billziss
Enter the password for sshfs:
The command completed successfully.

You can list your net use drives:

$ net use
New connections will be remembered.


Status       Local     Remote                    Network

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             X:        \\sshfs\billziss@mac2018.local
                                                WinFsp.Np
The command completed successfully.

Finally you can unmap the drive as follows:

$ net use X: /delete
X: was deleted successfully.

UNC Syntax

The complete UNC syntax is as follows:

\\sshfs\[LOCUSER=]REMUSER@HOST[!PORT][\PATH]
\\sshfs.r\[LOCUSER=]REMUSER@HOST[!PORT][\PATH]

REMUSER is the remote user (i.e. the user on the SSHFS host whose credentials are being used for access).
HOST is the SSHFS host.
PORT is the remote port on the SSHFS host (optional; default is 22).
PATH is the remote path. This is interpretted as follows:
- The sshfs prefix maps to HOST:~REMUSER/PATH on the SSHFS host (i.e. relative to REMUSER's home directory).
- The sshfs.r prefix maps to HOST:/PATH on the SSHFS host (i.e. relative to the HOST's root directory).
LOCUSER is the local Windows user (optional; USERNAME or DOMAIN+USERNAME format).
- Please note that this functionality is rarely necessary with latest versions of WinFsp.

GUI front end

SiriKali is a GUI front end for SSHFS-Win (and other file systems). Instructions on setting up SiriKali for SSHFS-Win can be found at this link. Please report problems with SiriKali in its issues page.

Advanced Usage

It is possible to use the sshfs-win.exe and sshfs.exe programs directly for advanced usage scenarios. Both programs can be found in the bin subdirectory of the SSHFS-Win installation (usually \Program Files\SSHFS-Win\bin).

The sshfs-win.exe program is useful to launch sshfs.exe from a cmd.exe prompt (sshfs-win cmd) or to launch sshfs.exe under the control of the WinFsp Launcher (sshfs-win svc). The sshfs-win.exe program SHOULD NOT be used from Cygwin. The sshfs-win.exe program has the following usage:

usage: sshfs-win cmd SSHFS_COMMAND_LINE
    SSHFS_COMMAND_LINE  command line to pass to sshfs

usage: sshfs-win svc PREFIX X: [LOCUSER] [SSHFS_OPTIONS]
    PREFIX              Windows UNC prefix (note single backslash)
                        \sshfs[.r]\[LOCUSER=]REMUSER@HOST[!PORT][\PATH]
                        sshfs: remote home; sshfs.r: remote root
    LOCUSER             local user (DOMAIN+USERNAME)
    REMUSER             remote user
    HOST                remote host
    PORT                remote port
    PATH                remote path (relative to remote home or root)
    X:                  mount drive
    SSHFS_OPTIONS       additional options to pass to SSHFS

The sshfs.exe program can be used with an existing Cygwin installation, but it requires prior installation of FUSE for Cygwin on that Cygwin installation. FUSE for Cygwin is included with WinFsp and can be installed on a Cygwin installation by executing the command:

$ sh WINFSP_INSTALL_DIR/opt/cygfuse/install.sh
FUSE for Cygwin installed.

Project Organization

This is a simple project:

sshfs is a submodule pointing to the original SSHFS project.
sshfs-win.c is a simple wrapper around the sshfs program that is used to implement the "Map Network Drive" functionality.
sshfs-win.wxs is a the Wix file that describes the SSHFS-Win installer.
patches is a directory with a couple of simple patches over SSHFS.
Makefile drives the overall process of building SSHFS-Win and packaging it into an MSI.

License

SSHFS-Win uses the same license as SSHFS, which is GPLv2+. It interfaces with WinFsp which is GPLv3 with a FLOSS exception.

It also packages the following components:

Cygwin: LGPLv3
GLib2: LGPLv2
SSH: "all components are under a BSD licence, or a licence more free than that"

chxnugs/sshfs-win