A GUI Replacement for sshfs

I've been using sshfs to remote-mount my home machine onto my work machine. Now, I've stumbled on an alternative that feels better integrated with my Gnome desktop: gvfs (gnome virtual file system) in Nautilus.

The short version:

$ nautilus sftp://test.com

brings up a file-browser window with test.com in it, which I can then browse and click around in. Also, test.com is mounted as ~/.gvfs/sftp on test.com/

Yes, it has all those blanks. Oh well. You can still get to it on the command line and in scripts.

If you already have a file-browser window up, just use the URI sftp://test.com

If you need to go in through a different port from 22, say 666, you'll first need to add a pair of lines to your .ssh/config file that look like like this:

Host test.com

Port 666

You can test whether they work or not by using ssh by hand.

$ ssh test.com