On my home LAN we have Macs and Linux machines (actually also a Windows machine, but it's not a priority here). We have some drives setup so that any computer can mount over the network. Years ago I started using Samba for this purpose (mainly because Windows compatibility WAS an issue). I also have been running an FTP server to occasionally share a few files with friends. Recently, I've used webDAV a bit and I'm wondering, would this be a reasonable solution for these purposes?
It seems like webDAV is more suited to access over the Internet than samba and will avoid the horrendous problems of using FTP with NAT on at least one end of the connection. If webDAV would be a reasonable replacement for samba for mounting drives on the LAN as well, that would really simplify things (only one service to worry about instead of two). So I'm curious for the opinion of those who may have more experience, would webDAV work for this? Are there any big drawbacks? Would it be much slower than samba over the LAN? Are there bigger security risks (or trickier security issues) involved, because it involves running an HTTP server? Is there another good solution I'm overlooking, like NFS? Thanks, Nick
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