Mount telnet using fstab

[jordank]

I can access the files I need by using the telnet command, but I need to have access to the files in my local file system. Is it possible to mount a shared drive over telnet in the fstab file?

[Rubberman]

Not if I understand what you are saying. If your Linux system is running Samba or NFS, then you can export the file system and connect to that from your PC or other remote system.

[jordank]

Sorry i did not make my post clear enough. The system that is hosting the files is running afs. I have been trying to configure open afs for a while now and am not having any luck. I have however been able to gain access to the file share using telnet. I was wondering if I could somehow use that to mount the afs share on my computer.

[HROAdmin26]

No. If you have SSH access, you can use SSHFS to "mount" the remote system.

Otherwise, if AFS is the only way the data is shared, you will have to set up an AFS client on your Linux machine (as you've been trying) - although I don't know how active AFS support on Linux is any more.

[jordank]

Thanks, I will look into sshfs. I have tried to setup an afs client on this computer and have had only problems. Afs support on linux is not great but our campus still uses it as the main way to host student and staff files, so I need to have it.

[Rubberman]

I know that a number of high-boffinry labs still use AFS with their Linux systems, such as CERN and FermiLab. FermiLinux and Scientific Linux have the necessary Kerberos and AFS updates needed to do this, I think.

[jordank]

I already have the kerberos packages and the afs packages installed. I actually found out about scientific linux a few weeks ago and I have been playing around with that. The only problem is, that I have been working on this computer for two months now and I cant start over with scientific linux. I would also have problems using my schools red hat software on the rhn.

[Rubberman]

Actually, Scientific and Fermi Linux are both based on RHEL code. The major differences are the updates to kerberos and afs, so you should not have any problems using any other RHEL updates, though you would probably want to use the SL or FL yum repositories. Anyway, that's about as far as I can go. I don't use kerberos or afs myself - that's my wife's domain (she works in the FermiLab computer division).

[jordank]

I know that it is based on rhel. I meant that my school uses the rhn to deliver the neccesary packages for integrating with the campus, and I dont think you can use scientific linux with rhn.