Connect to UiO

You're working from home, on your laptop. The ssh connection lets you run WRF on abel, open and edit files on sverdrup, rossby, ice and jern. Everything runs smoothly until you decide to transfer any of your files to your laptop's desktop or upload it to an email that you're editing in a web browser opened from your laptop.

How to access your files at the UiO network?

From Linux

Terminal

(See also uio.no/tjenester/it/nett/utenfra/hjemmeomrade/linux/SSHFS/ and termvakt.uio.no/Fjerninnlogging

First time, you need to install sshfs and such:

# sshfs - set of commands written by Arnstein Orten
sudo apt-get install sshfs                      # sshfs connects your laptio to your user at UiO
sudo gpasswd -a $USER fuse                      # allows your user to handle the file system
echo "ServerAliveInterval 5" >>  ~/.ssh/config  # keeps the connection

Then, create a folder called uiohome on your laptop

mkdir ~/uiohome                                 # to mount

To connect, write the following and change $USER (both places) to your UiO username.

sshfs -o idmap=user $USER@hjemme.uio.no:/uio/kant/geo-mhgeo-u1/$USER ~/uiohome

You may add this line to the bottom of the .bashrc script, to get reminded what the line was.

echo  "to mount: sshfs -o idmap=user $USER@hjemme.uio.no:/uio/kant/geo-mhgeo-u1/$USER ~/uiohome"

Graphical interface: ssh

From Ubuntu, you may click the "Files" icon; scroll down to "connect to server" and type

ssh:hjemme.uio.no

Log in with username and password.

Graphical interface: sshfs (works on Redhat laptops. For Ubuntu, see above or ask the IT)

On your laptop, create an empty folder called "uio" under /home/irenebn . Copy the following file to /home/irenebn/bin and call it "mountuio" (note! change all instances of irenebn into your username):

#!/bin/bash
if `mount | grep 'login\.uio\.no' > /dev/null`; then
      fusermount -u "$HOME/uio"
else
      sshfs "irenebn@login.uio.no:" "$HOME/uio"
fi

To mount your home directory (accessible from sverdrup, login and other UiO machines) onto your laptop, run this command in the terminal:

mountuio

You may want to add a shortcut on your laptop, so you don't have to type mountuio each morning. I type win+U on startup.

On your Redhat laptop, go to System/preferences/keyboard shortcuts
add 
name = Montere hjemmeområdet med sshfs shortcut = Mod4+U
(Mod4 = windows button)

If it stops working, for instance after updates, try this

sudo yum install sshfs
mountuio
cd uio/pc

or check your access:

sudo usermod -G fuse -a irenebn

If you get this error message,

[irenebn@amfibol ~]$ mountuio
fuse: mountpoint is not empty
fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option

check that the folder "uio" under /home/irenebn is EMPTY.

From Windows

To work on UiO files

Use Webdrive. See Montering_av_hjemmeområdet_med_WebDrive

To transfer files

Use WinSCP. See termvakt.uio.no/Fjerninnlogging#WinSCP