Re: smbfs mount over internet?

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

"Matt Price" <matt.price@utoronto.ca> writes:
> the webserver at my uni runs unix but doesn't allow nfs access.  It
> does, however, allow remote access via samba.  Question:  can I mount
> a remote samba volume over the internet using smbfs?  If so, what's
> the syntax for the fstab entry?  If not, anyone see some other way for
> me to mount my (remote) home directory as a vodlume on my woody box?
> I'm getting tired of ftp.  

Absolutely you can. Done it plenty of times, but haven't done it from
fstab. Here's a manual example:

 % mount -t smbfs -o username=scrumboy,workgroup=FOO //dropit/orelse /mnt
 Password: ***

Note the "/" there instead of the MS "\". Avoids problems with shell
interpreting \. Samba will "Do the Right Thing(tm)" with the "/".

Shouldn't be too hard to figure out an fstab entry once you get it
going from the command line.

Gary