I have a local Debian box and a remote FreeBSD box. I can edit files on the remote box over SSH, but it would be much nicer if I could edit them locally. Until today, I never realized how easy it is to do just that. My first thought was to try and tunnel NFS, but NFS is complicated, so that sounds messy. My next idea was Samba. I like Samba because it is easy to use and the server side runs entirely in user space. This means I could mount just about any box's remote file system. I'm Feeling Lucky for "samba over ssh" gave me this: http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/Samba-with-SSH/ Wow, mounting a share over Samba merely requires a single TCP port. I always setup Samba with the "homes" share enabled read-write, so I can mount my home directory from Windows. That makes this really easy. First create the SSH tunnel: ssh -qfN -L 2050:localhost:139 bob at mybox.example.com Then mount it: mkdir mybox smbmount //localhost/bob mybox -o username=bob,port=2050 This can be wrapped up into simple shell script: #!/bin/sh USER=bob HOST=mybox.example.com DIR=mybox PORT=2050 [ -d $DIR ] || mkdir $DIR [ $(ls -1 $DIR | wc -l) -eq 0 ] || exit ssh -qfN -L $PORT:localhost:139 $USER@$HOST smbmount //localhost/$USER $DIR -o username=$USER,port=$PORT -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list