I visit the future, sshfs ceases to work and other weirdnesses

By basd on Mar 30, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse

For no apparent reason, my main computer is now seeing into the future (or at least that is what it's clock says).

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My other computers still have present time.

While that is mildly annoying, the fact that sshfs will not maintain a persistent connections is far more troubling as I use the connection to my web server constantly. I have no idea whether there is a problem at my end or at the server end, but in any event I can make the connection and then after a single file transfer it breaks. This is new.

later update: the problem is manifesting itself only in one particular script (which was working) and not in another -- the one from which I copied and pasted the code. Rather baffling. This must not be a problem with sshfs, but with how I have it implemented in the script. But, as far as I can tell it connects, the script runs correctly, and then on a second instance, the sshfs server fails to respond. Then again, if I start the connection separately, then run the script, everything seems ok. I's truly baffled.

My initial efforts at file sharing have not been too positive. I have been able share folders on the internal drive just fine -- and the OpenSUSE/KDE4 interface is very easy, allowing even to select whether to share both NFS and SAMBA or just one of the above.

But, my more important effort -- to share an external USB drive, has fallen on failure. The drive appears on the network and claims to be shared, but I can't mount it.

As to my loading linux onto an external USB drive, it occurred to me I should pursue a slightly different solution for booting off the drive. That is, the present system works, but only so long as the drive identifications don't change.

Whereas, it would be rather convenient to have linux-on-a-disk to go with me wherever. So, it occurred to me I should have pursued the "Portable Linux" solution. I found a FAQ specifically addressed to OpenSUSE, along with a script that is supposed to make the switch-over to "portable" after linux is installed to the drive painless. But, no more time for such frivolity.

Thank you for visiting and have a pleasant tomorrow.