[mdlug] sshfs mount

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 15:23 -0500, Jeff Hanson wrote:
> I believe scp can copy directly between remote servers:
> http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/ssh-and-scp-howto-tips-tricks

It can *theoretically*,  but generally this will never work.  And the
particularities required will certainly be lost when using the GVFS
[abstraction layer].

Host-to-host transfers disregard the ForwardAgent directive [even if
configured].  So unless passphrase-less shared keys are configured for
the two hosts [a likely bad idea] or you've done some ssh key agent
song-and-dance [which GVFS certainly doesn't do] this just isn't going
to happen. 

Overall, locally initiated direct transfer between two remote hosts is a
thorn bush.

You could SSH to server A and issue the scp from there to server B if
you want a direct transfer.