Steve Searle wrote:
Around 01:17pm on Friday, June 15, 2007 (UK time), Matthew Benjamin scrawled:
What is the best way to mount a remote network share on a local Linux server
(FC3) from a remote Linux (FC3) server. Say 14.1.2.12 is my local server
and I want to mount a remote share /mnt/backup_share onto it from the remote
server 11.8.14.21. What is the mount command to do it. (These are not real
IPs.)
mount -t nfs 11.8.14.21://mnt/backup_share /some/local/directory/name
Make sure they remote server is running NFS, and its firewall allows
remote access.
NFS isn't secure at all. If your connection is going via the wild, and
not isolated to a local network I really would not recommend NFS.
A better way would be to use fuse-sshfs
http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html
Available from all good Fedora 'yum install fuse-sshfs'
This doesn't place any requirements on the remote or local machines,
other than an SSH connection can be established.
syntax is something like
> sshfs username@remotehost:/remote/path/to/mount /local/mount/point
cheers Chris
