Mounting PRI's Unix Filesystem on your Mac

At Oswald Tower

Use a samba share to access your unix home directory. 

1. In Finder, from the pull-down menu "Go", select "Connect to Server..". 
   
2. In the dialogue box, click "+" to add a connection and type in "smb://smb.pop.psu.edu/[yourpopnetid]"
3. Click "Connect".  You should see your samba share as a folder in the Finder Sidebar under "Shared".

Elsewhere

You can alternatively access your unix home directory from anywhere that you have an internet connection using a package called "sshfs"

1. Download MACFUSE and move to your "Applications" folder  
2. Download MACFUSION and move to your "Applications" folder.  [OPTIONAL?]
3. Launch MACFUSION and click the '+' to add a connection.  Here is an example of mounting PRI's data archive folder:


4. Mount the filesystem and it will appear under "Devices" in the Finder sidebar (or on desktop?).
5. It is good practice to Eject the device prior to shutting down your Mac, by clicking the little up-arrow.

1. Download the sshfs.app
   
2. Alternate instructions for command-line capability
3. In Finder, create a directory on your Mac to 'hold' your PopNet home directory.  For example, under your Mac home folder, create a directory called "MyPopNetHome". 
   
4. In a terminal window, issue this command to access your home directory via the sshfs command (you can alias later):
   

   sshfs [yourpopnetid]@israel.pop.psu.edu: MyPopNetHome/

5. You can access other directories on the unix filesystem directly by creating a Mac directory for them and specifying the Popnet location in the sshfs command.  Here I created a subdirectory in my Mac home called 'sodapop' as a mount point for /nfs/sodapop/sas_data

6. sshfs [yourpopnetid]@israel.pop.psu.edu:/nfs/sodapop/sas_data sodapop/