Andrewski Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 Is it possible to "mount a network drive" in Linux like one can in Windows? If so, is that the Linux name for it? I have some space on a box to which I can ssh and I'd like to make it so I don't have to login with scp everytime I want to transfer things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 The easiest way is NFS mounts.... You export from the server and mount from the client. However nfs isn't considered secure ... You can use FISH ... which is a share over ssh..... or if you need to share with windows machines you can use SAMBA I'd recommend a bit of working out what you wanna do, is speed more important than security etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissy Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 it certainly is, you just put a line in your fstab like you would to mount anything else, or you can use smbmount. i think the line you use is something like: //serveraddr /mount/point smbfs some,options,here some,numbers,here The best bet would be to do it using the mandrake control centre, there is a samba mount points utility somewhere, i just can't remember what subsection its in, good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted February 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 gowator, Speed is a larger priority than security in this case. Question is, do I need to have the owner of the box do anything? They want to keep the box as a whole secure, so they wouldn't want to run anything that would compromise the whole box. I'm just saying I don't care about what's in my shared folder. :) fissy, I won't need samba, as it's a linux box. So what should I be looking up (for I think I'll just need to RTFM)? 'fstab mount network' or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissy Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 well you either need to use samba or nfs like gowater said. (i think) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 no, except you might not have the nfs server installed on the server. in your server /etc/exports /dir/to/export <clients>,<options> Assuming you have a directory called /exports on the server and the client has /mnt/shared <clients can be by ip/domain etc. for example if ytour internal network is 192.168.1.0 with a netmask 255.255.255.0> /exports 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0, rw then exportfs -ra this rereads the exports and reexports them on the client mount 192.16.122.1:/exports /mnt/shared :D To mount automatically at boot and the entry to your /etc/fstab copy a previous entry, type =nfs instead of /dev/hda1 etc use 192.16.122.1:/exports thats it!!! except for file permissions and stuff. If your servername is resolvable from the clients you can use servername instead of the IP. Directories inherit permissions, so if you create it as root only root will get write priv's even though you set it rw Easiest way is to make a user group and put users in that group and give the export directory group ownership Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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