SSHFS is a handy tool to share files securely. It is a filesystem based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. As all Linux servers have already SSH installed, its very easy to configure and can be used to share files between two or more servers or desktops. You just have to mount the file system and it works like a charm. The idea of sshfs was taken from the SSHFS filesystem distributed with LUFS, which I found very useful. In this tutorial we will see how to install SSHFS with from the CentOS repository with the yum command and also how to compile it from Install SSHFS with yum Use the following command to install the SSHFS package with yum: When you installed the package with yum, proceed with the chapter "Mount a remote folder with SSHFS". Install SSHFS from source As an alternative (or when you want to get the latest SSHFS version) you can install SSHFS from source. To install SSHFS from source, you have to download the source files by using the following command which we will download from its official website: Now extract the folder by using the following command: You have to enter the folder with "cd" and then use configure and compile SSHFS: Now let's start using SSHFS as its successfully installed. Make a folder that you want to share with client end. Let's suppose we make a folder in /var/ with name "mnt" Mount a remote folder with SSHFS Now I will mount this folder from the remote server. In my case the remote server IP…