First, make sure that the Remote Server you wish to mount has already been added and configured.

Select the desired Remote server from the available choices and optionally, enter a Name and Description for this mount. It's always good practice to enter a meaningful name and description for colleagues, or yourself, to refer to later.

Select the Remote Folder on the system that will be mounted onto the folder.

Select the Local Folder of your Files.com site that you want to use as the mount point.

The Root, or Home, folder of your site cannot be selected for mounting a remote server. This would cause your entire site to be hosted on the remote server and prohibit you from being able to implement other Remote Mounts for your site. If you wish your entire site to be a Remote Server Mount then we strongly recommend using a Child Site, which can have its Root folder configured for a Remote Mount by using our CLI App or API.

Mount Setup Restrictions

There are a few scenarios where a Remote Mount cannot be set up.

A mount cannot be set up on a Remote Sync folder, nor on any subfolder within a Remote Sync.

A mount cannot be set up on a GPG encrypt or GPG decrypt folder, nor any subfolder within a GPG folder.

A mount cannot be set up on a File Expiration folder, nor any subfolder within a File Expiration folder.

A mount is mutually exclusive with a folder's geographic Storage Region setting. A folder can be configured with either a Remote Mount or a Storage Region, but not both. When a mount is configured for a folder, it overrides the Storage Region setting of that folder. The geographic storage region of a Remote Mount is determined by the physical location of its associated Remote Server.

A mount cannot be set up on a folder that contains any files or sub-folders.