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Gander22h · Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 18 Location: Ottawa, Ontario

I am relatively new to using Puppy, but have a bit of experience using Ubuntu over the past three years.

I am trying to install sshfs networking on an Acer Aspire 150 netbook running Puppy 5.1.1 from a USB so it can connect with Ubuntu PCs on the network also running sshfs. Right now the sshfs network runs fine between Ubuntu PCs.

Previous versions of Puppy came with sshfs available in the Puppy Package Manager and I had successfully installed it from there and networked to Ububtu machines in the past (although not to Puppy machines, didn't figure out the addressing in). Puppy 5.1.1 seems to lack sshfs in the Puppy Package Manager.

I did find this thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=737539832&t=40788 from April 2009 and followed the instructions there, downloaded the sshfs 2.2 tarball from http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/files/sshfs-fuse/, successfully converted it to a .pet file using tgz2pet from the command line and installed it. The Puppy Package Manager shows that it is installed.

However when I try to connect to another PC on the network using the command line

Gander22h · Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 18 Location: Ottawa, Ontario

In doing some more reading at http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html it occurred to me that even though past versions of Puppy just required adding SSHFS from the Puppy Package Manager that perhaps the current Puppy 5.1.1 doesn't include FUSE which is required to run SSHFS.

So I downloaded the FUSE tarball from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121684&package_id=132802 and used successfully converted it to a .pet file using tgz2pet from the command line and installed it as well. It shows up on the PPM as installed.

However SSHFS still doesn't work, it is still returning

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1690 Location: Germany

hi Gander22h,

you're correctly assuming that sshfs needs to be compiled. As the tarball you're linking is a source-package and not a precompiled binary-package, tgz2pet won't help, as it only converts the tarball to a pet-package without compiling.

You could try the attached pet, but i don't know if it will work for you, as it is compiled with puppy 4.31 and not lupu.

aragon

Gander22h · Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 18 Location: Ottawa, Ontario

Thank you very much for that! I downloaded it, clicked on it and it installs and works perfectly! I was able to connect sshfs out to other Ubuntu PCs on the network.

Three questions, if you are able to answer any of them:

Is this file available in the repositories somewhere, or just here on the forum?

Are there detailed step-by-step instructions somewhere on how to take a tarball, compile it and turn it into a .pet file? That would be incredibly useful information for users new to Puppy.

I don't suppose you know how to connect to a Puppy box from a different PC via sshfs, since there is no user account name nor PC name?

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1690 Location: Germany

nice, that it works.

Gander22h · Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 18 Location: Ottawa, Ontario

Danke, very much for all that help!

I did try connecting in from another PC via SSHFS using puppypc as the computer name (the router says that is its name) and neither that nor the local network IP address produced anything better than

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1690 Location: Germany

well you can find lots of that stuff with google, but an even simpler question comes up: have you installed a ssh-server on your puppy-system? because without that, you can't connect to your puppy-box via ssh.

if not, look here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=33648&search_id=588755928

aragon

Gander22h · Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 18 Location: Ottawa, Ontario

We are thinking exactly on the same lines, two way communication on an SSHFS network requires: SSHFS, FUSE, SSH-client to get out and SSH-server to get in. It would be great if there were an easy way on Puppy to check to see what packages are installed!

Gander22h · Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 18 Location: Ottawa, Ontario

I tried that link on the post but the link was broken. I did find "openssh-5.3p1-p4.pet" on ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/ but that didn't solve it.

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1690 Location: Germany

From memory i would say that this is only the client part of ssh. You could check that in the package manager.

I will look for another server-package...

Aragon

Gander22h · Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 18 Location: Ottawa, Ontario

I hate to ask, but how do you determine what packages are installed on Puppy? On Ubuntu I would interrogate Synaptic, but the Puppy Package Manager doesn't seem to show packages that came with the iso file.

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1690 Location: Germany

don't mind...

for woof-based versions there should be a file /root/.packages/woof-installed-packages or something like that....

aragon

Gander22h · Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 18 Location: Ottawa, Ontario

This is just straight Puppy 5.1.1, no /root/.packages file!

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1690 Location: Germany

Gander22h · Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Posts: 18 Location: Ottawa, Ontario

Doh! I actually hit Ctrl+H and .packages was there, I just missed it.

Okay /root/.packages has Openssh client showing up in woof-installed-packages and also in Packages-puppy-wary5-official, but not in Packages-puppy-5-official or Packages-puppy-lucid-official. sshfs-fuse-2.2 is there in user-installed-packages. Should I be looking anywhere else?

No sign of Openssh-server there at all, which may explain why you can sshfs out but not in.