Hi
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 (raring ringtail) and wish to make backup of my system using Simple Backup. For backup target I desided to use My Book Live Duo (Western Digital).
Mounting disk system is success using

sshfs root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/DataVolume/shares/MyUser /var/backup

Problem :
As user I can read and write the mont point.
touch /var/backup/xxx - OK
but
sudo touch /var/backup/xxx == PERMISSION DENIED

Simple Backup software uses this command to start :
gksu --description /usr/share/applications/sbackup-config-su.desktop /usr/bin/sbackup-config-gtk
and returns some strange errors
"Unable to create directory for testing purpose: Directory already exists." ==> /var/backup is mount point or soft link to /mnt/backup
or
"The specified target directory /var/backup was not found" if I remove soft link or do umount /var/backup.
It works fine with phisical directory /var/backup

Thanks

By default only the user has read/write permissions. You can use the options allow_other or allow_root to allow others access along with the option default_permissions which will enable permission checking by the kernel.

I'm not working with SELinux (I read somewhere that MBL works on SELinux Debian) - never had to - I'm familiar with old fashion permissions with chmod. So I would appreciate more descriptiveness ...

Thanks

In a nutshell sshfs creates a virtual file system that works via the SSH sftp protocol.

I also forgot to mention that you need to add user_allow_other to the /etc/fuse.conf file if not already included. The command to allow others to access the filesystem use the following:

sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions user@server /mount_point

However from the FAQs. "Generally it's not possible to use an sshfs mount as a "real" filesystem shared between multiple users. Some of this functionality can be enabled with the -o allow_other and -o default_permissions options, but files will not be created with the correct ownership, etc... "

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...title=SshfsFaq

Also see options for sshfs
http://linux.die.net/man/1/sshfs

Michaelk

You are very kind and I'm grateful for your help. I can use MyBookLive as backup target. Thanks again!

Regards and all good on this world to you

Franjo124