# Mount Remote NAS

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/mount-remote-nas/22498>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [April 12, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mount-remote-nas/22498 "2012-04-12T01:00:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![carnold6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@carnold6](https://forums.suse.com/u/carnold6)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mount-remote-nas/22498/1 "2012-04-12T01:00:21Z")

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We have a VPN with a remote office. I need to mount the remote NAS on our SLES 11 SP2 server so i can rsync a backup to it. I run mount -t smbfs -o username=NAShostname\\ASusername //remoteNAS\_directory/to\_be/mounted /mnt/backup and get mount: unknown filesystem type ‘smbfs’

Can someone tell me the correct way to mount a remote nas through the VPN?

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**Author:** ![carnold6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@carnold6](https://forums.suse.com/u/carnold6)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mount-remote-nas/22498/2 "2012-04-12T01:13:16Z")

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Got it:  
mount -t cifs …

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mount-remote-nas/22498/3 "2012-04-12T01:52:40Z")

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Exactly. Thanks for posting back confirmation of your success.

Good luck.

On 04/11/2012 04:14 PM, carnold6 wrote:[color=blue]

> Got it: mount -t cifs …
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