This little program allows you to mount a folder on a remote system to a local folder using ssh.
Install sshfs.
$ sudo apt-get install sshfs
Use the following command to mount a folder.
$ sshfs user@remotehostname:/path/to/remote/folder /path/to/local/folder
You don’t even have to be root to mount.
You can speed the process up with key-based access.
See here. http://blog.buttewifi.com/?p=15