On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 12:58 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007 08:10:47 primm wrote: > > On Friday 21 December 2007 20:28:04 Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > On Friday 21 December 2007 11:10, primm wrote: > > > > > NFS is kind of ugly itself, don't you think? > > > > > > > > Ugly? Naah! It's soooo neat. With nis and nfs anyone can login > > > > anywhere and get their own files and start work right after they've > > > > got a coffee. It just works. Just like NT server before someone > > > > downloded a virus. > > > > > > Well, I guess if someone else is configuring and maintaining it, sure, > > > it's wonderful. > > > > I setup an nfs server to export /home to 5 other clients. The same server > > handles nis logins. No eggageration, it took me 1/2 hour most of which was > > reading man exports until I discovered that Yast had read it for me > > already! I'll bet that some gurus on this list could do it in 5. > > > > Just curious, but what are my alternatives for nfs? > > Love from L > > nfs is good, it mostly just works. But v3 has drawbacks in security, so if > you're not in total control of the network, it might not be so good > > nfsv4 + kerberos can provide real authentication and encryption though, so > you > still don't have to abandon nfs >
just my $0.02, If you are not in control of your network, use openswan or strongswan for vpn, and put nfs-v3 over it. We have been using it in a test for connecting several locations. Works ok. I've encountered only one nightmare situation: nfs over a tunnel over an satelite connection... probably due to the latency. One might even condider sshfs (available for SLEx and opensuse on http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/filesystems/ hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
