Map SFTP As Network Drive?

[cokecan]

Hey Guys

Does anyone know of any free software that will allow me to connect to an SFTP share as a network drive in windows explorer/my computer?

I've found a few free trial options that have this ability (ExpanDrive and WebDrive) but ideally would like a free alternative

Thanks

 

[whitecrook]

Some more info on your setup?

I do a similar things but go the other way - we have SFTP server with user dirs accessible via windows shares, but the way we do it is to set up shares on the Windows File Server, and then mount them on the Linux system at the point of the SFTP roots (it's a chroot jail setup). This works really well.

This may not work if you have no control over the SFTP server.

Do you need realtime access? Would setting up a scheduled RSYNC task work well enough ? This will run every 5 mins or 15 mins or whatever and sync a local directory to your remote one.

It can be done in linux using FUSE, or KDEs IOslaves - I don't know of any windows implementation of the same thing.