Hello

Im trying to create a symbolic link to a FTP/SCP destination. Basically I create the link in say /home/username/folder and I want that to point to ftp://192.168.100.123/folder so everything that I store in /home/username/folder is actually stored in ftp://192.168.100.123/folder

How do I do this?

Thank you

Don't know.
I would mount the remote folder by sshfs onto the target folder in your home dir.
Maybe there is a similar thing for FTP.

running sshfs (just typing the command so it givs me a error/help) gives me this:


sshfs: can't load library 'libglib-2.0.so.0'

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That wouldn't be a symbolic link, but a URI. You need to locate and install the dependency. Which distro are you using? There should be a libglib-2.0 package available. How did you install sshfs and not have the dependency added?

Im not using any distro, its just a BusyBox terminal because it is a embedded device.

Yes, Im curious about that as well; sshfs installed and the library isnt there....

Any ideas on how to do this? Even if it isnt a symbolic link. I need to basically create (something) in linux that when placed something in there it points to a FTP/SCP location.

I think(?) you're confusing copying tools eg ftp, scp with mounting eg nfs, sshfs etc.
I don't believe you can symlink in a copying scenario; it doesn't make sense.
Those tools have to be invoked at the time(!) to copy files to another system. The remote file systems are not mounted on your local system, unlike when using nfs, sshfs etc.

Maybe with some more information you guys can give me some help and understand better


To keep things simple: I have a PC (PC 1 Windows) with the IP of 192.168.100.123 connected to a router (running Linux) which has two ports. Port 1 has a IP of 192.168.100.1 so they can see each other because they are on the same range. Now Port 2 has a ip of 10.10.10.1 and it is connected to another PC (PC 2 Windows) with a ip of 10.10.10.123

If I SSH into the router, the router can see (ping) both PCs. Its just the PCs cannot see each other.

What I want to do is from PC 1 access/send/transfer/etc information to PC 2. The router is very limited. Changing IPs is impossible in this case. There are no other devices, just these 3.

In that case you need to enable forwarding in the router to start with; for that we'd need to know the make/model and what OS etc it is running.
You'd also have to set up a gateway route on PC1 to use the gateway 192.168.100.1 to reach anything else, inc PC2.