I hadn't known about sshfs - that sounds great and I'll have to look it up. One of my favorite features is ssh forced commands, http://oreilly.com/catalog/ssht

I hadn't known about sshfs - that sounds great and I'll have to look it up. One of my favorite features is ssh forced commands, http://oreilly.com/catalog/sshtdg/chapter/ch08.html#22858 http://oreilly.com/catalog/sshtdg/chapter/ch08.html#22858 which I use on infrequently used remote servers to present menus of pre-defined commands to me or to others. And at other times, I can use it to kick off a daemon on a remote server just by ssh'ing to that remote server with the proper key. It's a simple way to create a "compile server" and then use one command line from my preferred machine to tell the compile server to check a certain directory and compile everything within it. Yeah, ssh is nice.