SMBMount Over the Internet?

[kbranch]

I\'d like to be able to mount my home PCs hard drive from anywhere there\'s an internet connection.  It seems like setting up a VPN would do it, but I haven\'t been able to find much info on that here.  I think I have everything set up for a VPN, but the connect to VPN button on the zaurus does nothing.  Does anybody either have another suggestion or could somebody help me out with the VPN?

[orthogonal]

I\'m not sure what you want to do. If you want to be able to connect to your PC\'s shares from anywhere, I can\'t help you (and I\'ll note that MOST users, though perhaps not you, have very limited upload bandwidth even on DSL/cable).

If you want to connect to PC shares from your zaurus, that\'s as simple as installing smbmount, and calling it (I haven\'t gotten it to work from fstab):
# smbmount //PCName/sharename /some/dir/on/your/zaurus -o username=PCusername,password=pcuserPassword

Then the directory you specified on the zaurus mounts the share.

To unmount (and the zaurus won\'t let you turn off the network connection until you do):
# smbumount /some/dir/on/your/zaurus

Note that parts of the zaurus filesystem are read only, notably / (root), so creating a directory off root to mount to won\'t work.

Also note that mounting will require that you to issue the smbmount command as root:
su root

Also consider install openssh, in order to log into your zaurus from your PC.

[kbranch]

I\'m not sure what you want to do. If you want to be able to connect to your PC\'s shares from anywhere, I can\'t help you (and I\'ll note that MOST users, though perhaps not you, have very limited upload bandwidth even on DSL/cable).

This is exactly what I want to do.  I\'m already able to mount my PCs shares from the Z and ssh into my Linux box from anywhere.  I\'m able to get about 45K/s upload on my connection, plenty for fairly small file transfers and streaming MP3s.

Does anybody know if using NFS instead of Samba would make any difference?

[gretchen]

I would love to do this also!  I\'ve been thinking of a couple different ways to do it and haven\'t come up with anything yet.  However, as I understand it NFS is not very secure.

Ideally I\'d like to mount drives over (through) ssh.  Not sure if it\'s possible, something to research next time I have free time.