From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 6:27:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darkstar.qx.net (darkstar.qx.net [208.235.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF2237B6F0 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 06:27:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfreeze@qx.net) Received: from mail2.qx.net (mail.qx.net [208.235.88.233]) by darkstar.qx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22808 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:27:32 -0500 From: jfreeze@qx.net Received: from mail.qx.net ([208.235.88.43]) by mail2.qx.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAA69BD for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:26:03 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Can I mount a remote file system thru PPP? Date: Tue, Mar 21 2000 9:27:32 GMT-0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <77361172A2B.AAA69BD@mail2.qx.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please pardon me if this is a silly or stupid question. I have just built myself a new system and it runs FreeBSD exclusively. (I am very happy now) My question is how do I mount a remote file system when I am connecting through a modem dialup. I have an account with www.iserver.com, which hosts web pages using FreeBSD. Through them, I was able to create an entry in my hosts file and then access my server through a UNC pathname (actually, //server/usr) and then map a drive to that filesystem. Question is, can I do such a thing with FreeBSD? I am currently connecting through PPP. Since I have several scripts that access the remote files as if they are on a local drive, I would like to continue to be able to use these scripts FreeBSD. It would be a pain to have to use ftp. (I know that I could tar up the files and ftp them down, operate on them, tar them up and send them back, but that is a lot of work if I just want to edit a few files.) Any help or pointers is greatly appreciated. Thanks Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message