[Simon]

I would like to be able to mount my work cluster's file system at home. The cluster runs Linux and uses NFS. nfsd is running on the file server. I can log into the machine via SSH but I can't do a NFS mount (from a remote location) for security reasons (which is reasonable...). So what I wanted to do is mount the NFS through a SSH tunnel. How?

- What port is NFS on? How can I tunnel this port through SSH? There used to be a hint on this board somewhere, but I can't find it anymore. Something like ssh -Lport_num server.domain.tld ?

- How do I do a NFS mount in the Finder? Is it enough to put nfs://servername.domain.tld in the "Connect to Server" window?

[Camelot]

nfs uses port 2049, however, it also uses RPC/portmapper to dynamically map ports to services, and I'm not aware of any way of handling that.

The quick tests I ran here didn't work.

It might be easier to do using a single-port protocol. Being a linux box it probably has Samba installed. If enabled, you might have more luck tunnelling smb/netbios (port 139)

[Tritium]

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=407...d/sam0203d.htm

I doubt it'll work right though.

[Simon]

Thanks for the info guys.

In that case I'm stuck with Samba. I don't wuite understand this however. I thought Samba was to connect to Windows file systems. Does this make sense between UNIXs? Is this efficient?

And how can I launch Samba in the Finder? Doesn't it use a strange notation with backslashes?