Hello All,
Just looking for some help.

I have one computer with an external IP address and one computer with only an interal IP. How would I share a folder on the computer without the external IP address through the computer that does have one. I'm guess I can just put a symlink in my FTP folder that points to a folder on the computer without the external IP, but I'm not sure on the logistics.

Thanks,
Sam

Can I just add this to my /etc/fstab?

//10.18.1.251/home/shared/music/ /home/guest/music ext3 defaults 1 1

sam

here is what you do, you share the directory on the internal IP system, then on the External IP system mount it, this can eb done with ftpfs, nfs, or samba. once mounted on the external IP system you should be able to access the external IP system the same way as before and use the internal ip share that is mounted as though it were a drive in the external ip system.

Conventions:

Computer 1 = Has external IP address - Linux Box - ClarkConnect (RedHat 9 based) - want /home/guest/music to point to computer 2 at /home/shared/music

Computer 2 = Has no external IP address - internal IP only - Linux Box - ClarkConnect (RedHat 9 based) - has folder /home/shared/music I want to link to.

Hey thanks for the tip.
I'm struggling with the commands for accomplishing this feat.

I used:

$ mount -t smbfs //10.18.1.251/shared/music /mnt/pam_music/

And I get this error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //10.18.1.251/home/shared/music,
or too many mounted file systems

Not sure what to do about this.

Thanks for your help again.
Sam

Thanks for your help, but I finally got it.

I had to:

# apt-get install samba-client
.....

# mount -t smbfs -o username=guest //server/shared /mnt/servershare

# ln -s /mnt/servershare/ /home/guest/servershare