Sshfs access network drives across many machines without being root

Q: Sshfs and FUSE : or file system in user space allow you to write to a network drive as though it were a local drive.

How I use it?

I often do a lot of crystallographic operations across many machines. I have not yet implemented a mirroring system. But FUSE and sshfs offer a stop-gap alternative

A: Basically just install fuse and sshfs, then mount it from the command line:

sshfs user@host:/remote/path /local/mount/point

The local directory should be owned by you. If you just installed fuse the system may need to be rebooted. For more options, check the sshfs manual page.