Hi, apparently it's no problem to mount your home directory from a computer outside of the building. I've only came up with a solution for the linux machines ;) You've got to install sshfs. For fedora this means: sudo yum install fuse-sshfs For most other distro's it's simply called sshfs. (arch): sudo pacman -S sshfs Moslty you've got the load the fuse module: sudo modprobe fuse After that you can try to mount your home dir (or any other dir you've got access to on midas): mkdir ~/homer sshfs kebil@midas.fvms.ugent.be: ~/homer If you get no errormessages, your homedir is mounted correctly. The only catch is that your user id and your group id on the computer you are mounting on, should be the same as those used on midas. Otherwise you;ll get the strange number notition when ls-ing. [kebil@birkoff ~]$ ll ~/homer total 57968 -rw------- 1 1153 345 1176 2008-10-17 17:37 #pico30749# -rw-r--r-- 1 1153 345 37336 2008-10-08 11:00 3262.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 1153 345 1072704 2008-07-09 10:46 Annotathon.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 1153 345 4126720 2008-06-20 16:35 BOGAS-0608.ppt -rw-r--r-- 1 1153 345 51700 2008-09-19 20:15 DSC-0203.jpg drwx------ 1 1153 345 4096 2007-03-12 15:38 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 1 1153 345 4096 2008-10-03 13:30 Perl-MoSeS drwxr-xr-x 1 1153 345 4096 2008-10-08 14:19 Perl-MoSeS-bak -rw-r--r-- 1 1153 345 175501 2008-09-28 09:54 The great leap forward.pdf drwxr-xr-x 1 1153 345 4096 2007-12-06 21:31 Website -rw-r--r-- 1 1153 345 84739 2008-10-07 15:45 affiches-ff.jpg drwxr-xr-x 1 1153 345 4096 2007-07-05 16:28 annot-proxy drwxrwxrwx 1 1153 345 4096 2008-10-07 07:54 backup hh, Kenny -- ================================================================== Kenny Billiau Web Developer Tel:+32 (0)9 331 36 95 fax:+32 (0)9 3313809 VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, BELGIUM kenny.billiau@psb.ugent.be http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be ==================================================================