Turn a Rental Server into a Cloud Drive

Prerequisites

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• SFTP-supported rental server
• Windows 11 PC

Download WinFsp

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https://winfsp.dev/rel

Download Rclone

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https://rclone.org/downloads

After installation, check the status.

rclone --version

Setting up the Rclone Config File

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Enter configuration mode

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Type:

rclone config

Select New remote by typing n.

Select SSH/SFTP.

Then, configure the basic information such as the server host, password/key, etc.

Find the location of the config file

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rclone config paths

For reference, here is my config file.

[Drive]
type = sftp
host = example.sakura.ne.jp
user = nekosama
pass = password
use_insecure_cipher = true
shell_type = unix
md5sum_command = md5 -r
sha1sum_command = sha1 -r

Mount the drive

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Create a .bat file and enter the following content:

rclone mount Drive:/home/user/your_file Z: ^
--cache-dir %LocalAppData%\rcloneLocalAppData ^
--vfs-cache-mode writes ^
--volname "Drive Name" ^
--buffer-size 512M

About Drive:/home/user/your_file

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• Drive : The name of the remote created earlier
• :/home/user/your_file : The file path you want to specify (optional)

cache-dir

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Specifies the directory that rclone uses for caching. (Optional)

vfs-cache-mode

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Cache mode (writes is recommended)

Please check here for more details.

volname

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The name of the drive (Optional)

buffer-size

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Buffer for speeding up file transfer. (Optional)

Mount

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Finally, run the .bat file, and the drive will appear.