I wanted to post this in Networking, it has no new 'post'

[fruitkiller]

I got 2 desktops running LM17.1 here. The other one is mostly there for when I don't feel like going to my office and it's in the solarium next to the kitchen. It has way too much space than it needs. I read before, but I forgot where, and I must have been logged in win7 at the moment (yeah yeah, still happens cos of gaming).

In all cases, I want to remotely mount one of the hard drives on that computer that is connected to mine through our fibre optics modem/router. Or maybe just even a partition on it (I think that would be more difficult but maybe needed). Samba is crap and I refuse to work with it outside a windows environment. Please tell me how come I can't post in networking section and 2) well, any help with this?, I'm not even able to make folders shared here, they don't go into sambashares as in what group they should be in, so that was my last try.

I know I can do it, a friend of mine does it with the same fibre op modem/router and i got a mac on this network and I can use its printer.

The guide I remember reading had something to do with creating a DATA fake hard drive to mount on the computer i want to use as a file dump then add as many symlinks in the UUID file to the real folders i want access to in that other desktop.

Thanks in advance.

[Pilosopong Tasyo]

Please tell me how come I can't post in networking section...

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[WharfRat]

fruitkiller,

There are a couple of ways to do what you're asking. I use sshfs. Simple instructions are locate here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... s-over-ssh

Good luck

[fruitkiller]

Yeah, I tried quite a lot of samba guides and always one side says the other is abnormal. I already use sshfs with one of my vps so it appears as a local drive, but it is all from paste and go instruction from my seedbox server wiki.

I'll check it out a little tonight, but its gettin' late, tomorrow I'll get in the thick of it.

Btw, could it be the fibre optics router/modem's config that's blocking stuff? I doubt it, I mean samba got to see each other's shared folders, just impossible to get permission to mount a drive or enter a folder.

[fruitkiller]

got me a connection reset by peer here :

sudo sshfs root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/ /mnt/droplet

Could this be this guide is mostly for vps's ?

[WharfRat]

I can't speak to fibre optics, but I would assume the functionality would be similar to a wired/wifi router.

This is how I connect mine to a mount point at /mnt/dell/shared

sudo sshfs -o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/id_rsa bill@192.168.1.103:/media/shared /mnt/dell/shared

I use static IPs so the computer addresses will always be the same.

Are you running a firewall That could be blocking the connection.

[fruitkiller]

Look at the networking forum, I got it to work thanks to another user just running avahi

[ganamant]

In all cases, I want to remotely mount one of the hard drives on that computer that is connected to mine through our fibre optics modem/router.

That's the perfect job for nfs, IMO.