anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:

> Joe Pfeiffer writes:
>>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>>> X is a connection between the remote machine and a machine close to
>>> the user. It would be convenient if the remote machine could talk to
>>> a USB stick plugged into the machine close to the user. One way to do
>>> this would be by piggybacking the traffic to the USB stick onto the X
>>> traffic; an alternative would be to do it through ssh.
>>
>>Tunneling more through ssh does sound interesting...
>
> I guess the tunneling part is the easy part, but one would probably
> have to mount the stick in some way on the remote system, and it
> should only be accessible by the user. If we want near-universal
> support (i.e., many platforms) for that, that's quite a lot of work.
> In Linux, one can probably implement it through FUSE.

Come to think of it, now that your bring up FUSE, it would probably be
pretty straightforward to do it with sshfs.