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Re: smbfs mount over internet?



Try something along the lines of:

//hostname/directory  /mnt/mountpoint  smbfs  defaults,user,noauto,username=your-user-name,password=your-password  0  0 


Auke

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:38:59AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> ok, here's an odd one,
> 
> 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.  
> 
> thanks loads,
> matt



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