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

[Jules]

On 15/09/2011 13:53, Philip Boulain wrote:
> 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?
>
Using a VPN connection is hardly difficult. On a Mac you click on the 
icon in the menu and it connects you without further prompting. I don't 
think that's asking too much of anyone.

Jules

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