Some notes on remote access.

samba

Samba can be used to share file systems.

Server Setup

To set up samba service on a Linux machine, follow this

Mount on Linux

If the samba service has setting public = yes, we can access it as guest. To do so, option guest is used. In case of using /etc/fstab for mounting, it requires sudo which set the owner of the mounted file system root. To assign an desired user as the owner, use option uid. Therefore, add this line to /etc/fstab

//server/pub    /home/yufei/Documents/remoteDatabase    cifs    guest,uid=<your-uid>    0   0

where <your-uid> should be replaced by the intended owner’s uid, which can be obtained through id <username>.

The file systems specified in /etc/fstab will be mounted upon computer boot

They can also be mounted manually through commands like

mount /home/yufei/Documents/remoteDatabase

Mount on MacOS

To mount as a guest user, add this line to /etc/fstab

//guest@server/pub    /home/yufei/Documents/remoteDatabase    smbfs    automounted    0   0

To mount an other intended username on the samba server, use

//username@server/pub    /home/yufei/Documents/remoteDatabase    smbfs    automounted    0   0

Since mount_smbfs on MacOS does not provide the option uid, to make yufei the intended owner, we need to run

sudo -u yufei mount /home/yufei/Documents/remoteDatabase

SSH

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