[OSX-Users] Re: backing up while on road away from time capsule

[Philip Boulain]

On 15/09/2011 13:48, Nick Gibbins wrote:
> On 15 Sep 2011, at 12:05, Jules wrote:
>> Finder, Go / Connect to server..., cifs://shares.ecs.soton.ac.uk/nmg
> Gosh! That's worth knowing!
>
> (and certainly much less hacky than a user filesystem that speaks ssh/scp)

But isn't the drawback here is that CIFS-mounting the home area requires 
being on the University network (e.g. VPN), whereas you can SSH[FS] to 
login (which mounts staff filesystem) from anywhere?

-- 
Phil