well it is mounted on the WAN so it is accessible there right?
NFS is by the way not the best way for a "secure" file share.
But what has this to do with 389?
Seems like a general networking question to me and it depends mostly on
what is done in terms of firewalling.



On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Amjad Farooq <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have TWO linux machines in my office. One is on LAN (only
> locally-accessible) and the other on WAN (WWW-accessible). On the WAN, I
> have an apache server running but I also mounted a hard drive from the LAN
> machine using NFS so that I can easily access and transfer data files
> between the two machines.
>
> My question is:
> Is the hard drive from the LAN machine mounted on the WAN computer
> accessible from outside LAN? In other words, if an hacker breaks into my
> server on the WAN machine, will (s)he be able to access data on my
> NFS-mounted hard drive from the LAN machine? I would assume that since IP
> assigned to my LAN machine is only accessible locally, access from outside
> LAN to this hard drive will not be available. What do you think?
>
> Thank you for your suggestions.
> Amjad
>
>
>
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