connect to fileshare via 9P For Linux, the command is sudo mount -t 9p -o trans=tcp,port=564,version=9p2000.L,aname=/var/www/mysite/files 194.87.244.10 /mnt For Plan 9, you can figure it out yourself UPDATE: apparently 9p2000.L isn't backwards compatible with 9p2000. Oh well, will fix it some time