Ken Guest’s online diary

I recently discovered sshfs; which is a useful way to mount remote systems via ssh.

I wanted to have some systems mounted automatically on my laptop whenever I am online but not have any timeouts or attempts to connect when I am not. This ruled out simply adding a line or two to my .bashrc file or the /etc/fstab file.

The solution?
I already use the whereami package to selectively mount nfs shares and do other things depending on my location so it was just a matter of editing the /etc/whereami/whereami.conf file to include the following:

#mount /media/server1
=home sudo -u kguest sshfs server1.example.com: /media/server1 -o workaround=rename
#mount /media/server2
=home sudo -u kguest sshfs server2: /media/server2 -o workaround=rename

The ‘home’ location is defined in my /etc/whereami/detect.conf file if the access point at home is detected:

if wlan
  testap example-ap-name  home,wdhcp
  notat  wlan,wdhcp
fi

Combined, these mean that if the whereami script detects an access point named example-ap-name (original isn’t it?) then those remote systems are mounted into the /media/server1 and /media/server2 directories.

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