Re: Sharing files between OpenBSD, Linux, and Windows boxes

[mathuin]

 
> Not sure what your environment is, but I'm a big fan of sshfs for light
> usage.
> 
Zero config and fast enough for light usage, sshfs is pretty cool. 

Re: Sharing files between OpenBSD, Linux, and Windows boxes

[Rupert Gallagher]

We used SMB locally: the server was on macos, the clients on macos, windows and 
linux. The problem with file permissions on macos had solution in the windows 
registry, but windows had a mind of its own and kept changing itself. A robust 
solution was to move the server to linux and enforce file permissions in samba. 
OpenBSD does not speak SMB fluently. We deprecated the protocol and sealed its 
ports for security reasons.

We still use NFS: the servers are on OpenBSD, the clients are on Windows 10 
Pro, MacOS and GNU/Linux. Every box talks NFS. The protocol and the 
implementations are not bullet-proof. OpenBSD's NFS suffered from DoS a few 
years ago, and we have a problem right now that smells DoS to us.

We need something that does not require resetting servers in the middle of the 
night. We also need something that works on WAN. We have iSCSI in the pipeline.

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On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 00:03, Martin Hanson  wrote:

> How do you share files between OpenBSD, Linux, and Windows boxes? Currently I 
> have a setup in which I mount Samba shares that are being served from Linux 
> boxes and mounted on Linux boxes using cifs and on Windows boxes. This works 
> very well and it's both easy to administer and it's very fast. I would like 
> to use OpenBSD for more that just firewalling and I would like to replace 
> several Linux desktops with OpenBSD. However, every time I try to set this up 
> I run into some kind of trouble. NFS isn't a solution as file permissions is 
> a mess between several different OS'es with different accounts. Samba works 
> really great between Linux and Windows, but mounting Samba shares on OpenBSD? 
> I remember sharity-light, but it isn't in the ports any longer and isn't 
> maintained. How do you manage file sharing between these systems (if it all)? 
> Also, is it possible to decrypt and mount a Linux harddrive that has been 
> encrypted with LUKS? Many thanks in advance! Kind regards

Re: Sharing files between OpenBSD, Linux, and Windows boxes

[Kevin Chadwick]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:17:22 +0100


> If you get motivated, there's probably some "mount this sftp server
> as a drive" software for windows, and then you can get rid of Samba.
> But I've never looked for such a thing.

These tend to be pay for and you may need to run ntfs as I found some
inconsistent Windows programs don't cope with case sensitive file
systems despite various tweaks. In my general experience, NTFS-3G isn't
as stable (can cause panics) as FFS or ro ntfs on OpenBSD though either.

Re: Sharing files between OpenBSD, Linux, and Windows boxes

[Alex Waite]

On 02/15/2018 12:03 AM, Martin Hanson wrote:

How do you share files between OpenBSD, Linux, and Windows boxes?
[...]
How do you manage file sharing between these systems (if it all)?


Not sure what your environment is, but I'm a big fan of sshfs for light 
usage.


Then you can view Samba as a service for compatibility with the island 
that is windows.


* linux box hosts the data and shares via samba
* Win boxes connect via Samba
* All other *nix system connect using sshfs

If you get motivated, there's probably some "mount this sftp server as a 
drive" software for windows, and then you can get rid of Samba. But I've 
never looked for such a thing.


---Alex

Sharing files between OpenBSD, Linux, and Windows boxes

[Martin Hanson]

How do you share files between OpenBSD, Linux, and Windows boxes?

Currently I have a setup in which I mount Samba shares that are being served 
from Linux boxes and mounted on Linux boxes using cifs and on Windows boxes. 
This works very well and it's both easy to administer and it's very fast.

I would like to use OpenBSD for more that just firewalling and I would like to 
replace several Linux desktops with OpenBSD. However, every time I try to set 
this up I run into some kind of trouble.

NFS isn't a solution as file permissions is a mess between several different 
OS'es with different accounts.

Samba works really great between Linux and Windows, but mounting Samba shares 
on OpenBSD? I remember sharity-light, but it isn't in the ports any longer and 
isn't maintained.

How do you manage file sharing between these systems (if it all)?

Also, is it possible to decrypt and mount a Linux harddrive that has been 
encrypted with LUKS?

Many thanks in advance!

Kind regards