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Subject: Re: [9front] 9pfs
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On 10/5/24 11:26, william@thinktankworkspaces.com wrote:
> Oh I see. I do have a 9front server running. This is my first exeriment with 9pfs. I just wanted to 
> throw 9pfs on a Mac and a few linux boxes. I guess I just wanted to connect without the hassel of 
> ssh or sshfs. But it does sound like I need a few more tools to really get the benefit out of it
> beyond 9pfs, meaning that I suppose I need plan9ports installed and factotum and a few other things or is 
> that incorrect. Strange enough but I'm kind of getting attached to acme editor and have been using it
> in my daily life with sshfs and changing code on remote servers. It's light weight as opposed to vscode
> or intellij running remotely which is heavy. I loose some benefits but I gain others. 
> 
> So I thought to kind of expand with 9pfs and take advantage of some additional features. 
> 

Hold on here, it's still not clear exactly what the end result is that you're looking for here.

Let's start from the top here:

9pfs does not require anything from plan9port.
9pfs is a fuse 9p client.
9pfs connects to a system that is running a 9p file server (over port 564 by default).
This means your mac is initiating a network connection to your 9front machine, so the 9front machine must be listening for 9p.
Ssh and sshfs go the other way, they initiate a network connection from 9front to a machine running ssh.
9pfs would expose the 9front's files to your mac, sshfs exposes your macs files to your 9front.
A 9front machine does not expose its root filesystem over 9p by default, that requires some modifications.

This is why I was asking about the networking status of your 9front machine (ie can you ping it, is it listening on port 564 etc)


Hope this helps,
moody