I like this answer. For everyone who wants to do this by commandline: Search for sshfs and FUSE (also possible on Mac with osxfuse). Only be aware that a mac uses a different kind of utf-8 than unix. My command I use for sshfs on a mac:
I also thought the same, you would not recognize it most of the time (even while transferring). But I'm german and I use sometimes Umlauts in filenames/directories. They did not showed up in my Samba share so I got aware of this issue. I think this issue is too hidden.