If you have FUSE (Filessystem in Userspace) installed, you can use SSH to mount a remote drive locally. This is very simple to do and you don’t need to be root. You just need SSH access to the remote system. Just create a directory to mount the system and use the sshfs command to connect the remote to it.

Here I will mount my home directory on my remote server named slacker locally to a directory on my laptop’s home directory: