Les -- About the authentication nightmare part, the same criticism is frequently nailed on NFS in Unix/Linux land. The problem there is the same: You have placed a certain amount of admin trust in the file sharing peer systems. If you don't trust the sysadmin of an NFS client, don't export the content to his machines. (There are various ways people have tried to close the gap in NFS, wth varying results and varied satisfaction, all very confusing.) Similarly, if you don't trust the sysadmin of the other VM system(s), don't play SFS with them.
Rob mentions username mapping with IPGATE. They do the same thing in NFS, but not quite as open-ended. IPGATE is kinda cool. -- R; <>< Rick Troth Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:25, Les Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend and I were (dis)cussing SFS and he thinks it can be networked > cross-country. Possible? I would guess that it would be an authentication > nightmare at the user level. Thoughts? > > Les >
