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You can speed up ssh/sftp/scp transfers by changing the cipher to
blowfish.

Kevin Anderson wrote:
> Well, Lets clear a few things...
> 
> Samba isn't the "windows way", it's the SMB way.  That can be done on 
> Linux, Mac and/or Windows.
> Ditto for Rendezvous.  
> 
> NFS is another way.
> HTTP is another.
> FTP too.
> SSH (a la fish) is another.
> Etc.
> 
> There are lots of tools.  You don't want SMB or NFS, I'd say that each 
> has advantages depending on what you're doing and on how you're 
> connecting, and what you're doing over that connection.
> 
> SSH is slow but secure.
> SMB is slow and insecure, but shares nicely with everyone since MS has 
> popularized it.
> HTTP is annoying, but works well once working.
> FTP just sucks.  (PEBKAC on my part here more than likely)
> NFS is great, but if the connection is unreliable, then it's breaks 
> worse than most alternatives.  (That's fixable tho)
> 
> Etc.
> 
> Kev.
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Bruseker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:51 PM
> To: CLUG General
> Subject: [clug-talk] Browsing a Linux network
> 
> Random discussion topic.  How do you browse a network in Linux?  By that 
> I mean something analogous to a Windows domain.  I'm wondering about the 
> whole package: browsing to find the shared resource, authenticating, and 
> transferring.  I got to thinking about this last week when I got tired 
> of always using "Connect to computer" on my PowerBook to mount the AFP 
> share on my Gentoo box.  So I installed Avahi (a Rendezvous "server", I 
> guess you'd call it), and now my SSH and AFP services are broadcast on 
> my network so I can access them by name and the Gentoo box just 
> magically appears in the Networks folder on the Mac.  Nifty.  Then last 
> night I was messing around with Ubuntu
> 7.04 in a VM, and found that it had magically picked up the SSH shares 
> on both the Gentoo and Mac machines (again using Avahi, I believe).
> When I clicked on one, I could log in and it mounted the remote 
> filesystem using SFTP.  Nifty again, but it got me to thinking.
> Rendezvous is the Apple way, and Samba is the Microsoft way, but what is 
> the Linux way?  Put another way, before anyone invented Rendezvous and 
> Samba, how did people browse a Linux only (or Unix only, if we have to 
> go back that far) network?  Where does the single sign-on come from, if 
> that's possible, à la Windows domain, where I wouldn't be asked for a 
> username/password to mount the remote filesystem?  And what protocol is 
> used?  NFS?  *cringe*  I've never gotten along with NFS.
> 
> Like I said, random discussion topic, just creating conversation.
> How's everyone's Tuesday?  :-)
> 
> Ian
> 
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