On 4/20/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:11:36PM +0100, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an OpenBSD (file-)server at a remote location on the internet > > that is around 137ms away from an OS X 10.4 laptop. > > > > Is there a way to securely mount OpenBSD's filesystems from OS X in > > such a setting? > > > > Is using ssh port forwarding along with samba or nfs over tcp my only > > solution here? Which is likely to be faster -- nfs over tcp or samba? > > > > The first thing I don't like about smbfs clients is that they always > > use port 139, and there is no way to specify a different port, which > > is really annoying... > > > > Whilst looking at this topic now, I found sshfs.org, but there doesn't > > seem to be any activity around it since late 2003. > > As others pointed out, some VPN might be useful. > > If you can get both sides to talk AFS, performance might be a little > better, due to extensive caching. Or not. > > Joachim > > If we are talking OS X here, you might consider using afpd (in the netatalk package) which is an implementation o the native Mac filesharing protocol AFP. For your security concerns, OS X supports tunnelling AFP connections over SSH. If you are really considering this, ask me for a netatalk-2.0.3 package because the 1.6.3 version has some annoying limitations.
The only thing I'm not certain about is how it will fare in the performance departement compared to AFS. -- "i think we should rewrite the kernel in java since it has good support for threads." - Ted Unangst
