Creating a Secure SFTP Server with Chroot on Ubuntu 22.04

The best solution would be to add NFS or Samba to your SFTP server and use a proper distributed file system protocol instead of SFTP.

We use the SSHFS command in Linux to mount a remote file system using SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol). SSHFS is a filesystem client used ...

I can mount my ubuntu homeserver trough sftp using the rclone mount command. What also works is: mount raspi: /home/ejan/Openbaar/Homeserver -t rclone -o

I found out that the remote file system was not being mounted in /run/user/$UID/gvfs . After some research I ended up here and that worked.

You can install SSHFS to mount a remote directory by using SSH alone. This has the significant advantage of requiring no additional configuration.

On a Ubuntu 20.04 system, I have successfully mounted a SFTP folder by running sshfs -o KexAlgorithms=diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 [email protected]:/ ~/foo

This tutorial will show you how to install the SSHFS client on Linux, macOS, and Windows and how to mount a remote directory.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use SSHFS to access remote network drives and directories on your Ubuntu 18.04 server via SSH.

It's really handy to be able to mount a remote SFTP connection locally. If you have that need, I have a tutorial for you.

First install the module: sudo apt-get install sshfs. Load it to kernel: sudo modprobe fuse. Setting permissions (Ubuntu versions < 16.04):