On Mar 11 01:01:45, Sunnz wrote:
> Basically I want to set up a network share on my OpenBSD box which my
> Mac laptops and Linux laptops can access to.
Then use NFS, the standard UNIX technology for this.
> Smb seems kind of weird in a environment with no M$ systems... however
> this is probably what I am most familiar with because I did it in the
> past on OpenBSD and it was a breeze to set up.
NFS is a breeze to setup, too.
> I also tried out NFS in the past on OpenBSD. Got it to work but I
> don't really understand how it works. There aren't any form of
> authentication, just a list of IP that has access to it... which
> always seemed weird to me...
NFS was not designed with security in mind. As you give no description
of your environment, I can only guess that "your Mac/Linux laptops"
are onsidered inside your home network, which should be already
protected by other means.
> that it uses whatever permission on the
> OpenBSD on the laptop, which doesn't really work out... like the group
> "users" can have a very different gid on Linux than on Mac. Maybe I am
> not using it correctly or understood how it is supposed to work?
NFS is a relative of NIS, where user/group IDs are not local to every
computer, but distrubuted over the network.
> So now I am looking at AFP via Netatalk, which seem to be Unix like
> enough but have password authentication like Smb, and some suggested
> that it would have good performance with Mac... and Linux has support
> for it through FUSE... however I have no experience with it... is it
> good or not?
Both AFP and Netatalk seem a bit Apple-centric,
while NFS is the standard and is IMHO much more supported.
> So I can't decide what to do at this moment... I'll most likely are
> going to try out netatalk... but if you have a similar environment,
> like one without much concern for M$, please suggest what would you do
> for file sharing, and why.... thanks a lot!!
You don't really describe your environment, except that a laptop
needs to see files from elsewhere. If you _need_ proper authentication,
you might want to look for options, but if you don't (as is the case
in my home network of two BSD servers and a few laptops), NFS works
just fine.
Jan
