Sshfs access network drives across many machines without being root

Q: Sshfs and FUSE : or file system in user space allow you to write to a network drive as though it were a local drive.

How do I use it?

I often do a lot of crystallographic operations across many machines. I have not yet implemented a mirroring system. But FUSE and sshfs offer a stop-gap alternative

A: Install SSHFS and then mount the remote directory from the command line:

sshfs user@host:/remote/path /local/mount/point

The local directory should be owned by you. If you just installed fuse the system may need to be rebooted. For more options, check the sshfs manual page.  The remote machine must be running ssh server.

Install sshfs:

Debian

su
apt-get install sshfs

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install sshfs