Alex Aminoff wrote:
My thought would be sshfs.
http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html
That was my thought as well. I'm just waiting for a workable sshfs
driver to become available for Windows and then I'll gladly get rid of
Samba. (I run into way too many authentication headaches with Samba,
which are always a pain to debug, and I've come to the conclusion that
it's never going to get better, due to the crufty nature of the protocol
(only made worse by NMB for name resolution) and the piles of code there
to provide backwards compatibility.)
Last time I looked I couldn't find an ssshfs for Windows, but I just ran
across:
Dokan : user-mode file system library for Windows
http://dokan-dev.net/en/about/
for which there is apparently an sshfs driver:
http://soi.kd6.us/2009/03/20/so-i-found-a-windows-sshfs/
I haven't benchmarked sshfs (been using it fro Linux), but I'm assuming
the performance of sshfs is going to be lousy compared to NFS.
Ideally I'd like to see a hybrid option for cases where you want strong
authentication and access controls, but don't need to keep the data
private over the wire. It could build on the existing ssh and public key
infrastructure for authentication, and then use stateless UDP packets,
probably with an attached HMAC for authenticity, for the data transport.
Perhaps NFSv4 is close enough to this. (Is it any more of a pain to set
up Kerberos than ssh and PKI? Perhaps.)
The big drawback to any of these options is that they all require new
clients, which aren't readily available on all platforms. It's hard
enough finding a decent NFS client on Windows, never mind one that also
supports v4. (Though of course there is existing wide support for ssh
file access via FTP-like clients and scp, so technically the clients
exist, but with a different UI.)
-Tom
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