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.

How to install

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.

How to use

Once you have installed WinFsp and SSHFS-Win you can start an SSHFS session to a remote computer using the following syntax:

\\sshfs\[locuser=]user@host[!port][\path]

For example, you can map a network drive to billz@linux-host by using the syntax:

\\sshfs\billz@linux-host

As a more complicated example, you can map a network drive to billz@linux-host at port 9999, but give access rights to the local user billziss by using the syntax:

\\sshfs\billziss=billz@linux-host!9999

It is also possible to map the remote root directory by starting the path with a double backslash as in the following example:

\\sshfs\billz@linux-host\\home\billz

You can also mount the remote's root / directory using the following format:

\\sshfs\user@host\..\..

You can use the Windows Explorer "Map Network Drive" functionality or you can use the net use command from the command line.

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.

Project Organization

This is a very 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: