What is Dokan SSHFS?
Dokan SSHFS is an open-source software for Windows that enables mounting remote folders on a SSH server as a local drive on your Windows machine. It utilizes the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to provide fast, secure and reliable access to files stored on a remote Linux or Unix server.
Some key features of Dokan SSHFS include:
- Mounts remote folders on any SSH server with SFTP access as local NTFS drives
- Supports password and private key authentication for logging into the SSH server
- Provides access to remote files directly through Windows Explorer like any other local drive
- No need to copy files back and forth between local and remote machine
- Background caching for faster access to remote files
- Open-source software with an MIT license
Dokan SSHFS runs on all recent versions of Windows. It can mount drives automatically at startup, has blue/green badge support and allows setting explicit credentials per mount point. The software is implemented as a user-mode filesystem driver using Dokan library.
Key usecases for Dokan SSHFS include web developers accessing production servers, software engineers working on code repositories and anyone needing convenient access to Linux machines from Windows.