Mounting a remote filesystem on Windows 10 using Bash

Solution 1:

SFTP Net Drive is a brilliant free solution. Some features are pro only but most features you could need for home/small business use are supported.

Perhaps off-topic: If the "remote" file system is local and is on Linux anyway, you can use Samba to mount Linux shares on Windows. Samba is very powerful and versatile but it is not too much of a hazzle to setup a few home shares.

My personal experience with Dokan based programs in Windows 10 is that they don't work at all (or won't install).

Solution 2:

Sorry for writing this as an answer, but I have not reached 50 rep yet to comment. I have successfully mounted ssh filesystem on windows 8 using cygwin about a year ago and even doing the mount as a system service (was going crazy with windows 8 permissions in samba). So, as long as you have a good implementation of ssh (openssh?) on your system you should be able to mount a ssh filesystem..

However, Ican not research this, since I refuse to install win10 (I care about my integrity) and even thinking about abandoning Linux for BSD (pulse audio, systemd).

So, you could achive this with openssh in cygwin, using cygwin to set up a system service or you might research if there is a ssh client / server for the windows bash shell.

However, it looks like Microsoft is working on this.. Take a look at this blog post: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/06/03/looking-forward-microsoft-support-for-secure-shell-ssh/

Solution 3:

Win-sshfs is able to mount remote file systems using SSH on Windows. It is using Dokany that is fork of Dokan and also compatible with Windows 10. I am using it myself on windows 10.