How do I access an external drive mounted on a machine on my own network?

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Published on 2011-06-22T20:01:22Z Indexed on 2011/06/23 0:32 UTC
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I've got one desktop computer Ubuntu 11.04 with an external USB drive mounted on it on the home WRT54L Linux network (192.168.0.2), and when I arrive at home with my laptop, I want to be able to mount the external USB drive from my Ubuntu 11.04 laptop (192.168.0.3) to the desktop, without having to unplug it from the desktop, that is accessing it.

Is it possible to send a remote mount command to the desktop usb drive from my laptop? Ideally something that creates a local mountpoint I can just call locally from the programs installed in my laptop, like:

username@laptop ~ ./myprograminlaptop /my/file/which/is/actually/on/the/desktop/file.txt

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