Thanks for the idea Justin. It's certainly an interesting potential option. It seems like it would be one of the simplest after initial setup, the only issue being that it's not something that's available by default on Macs meaning convincing my girlfriend to install it and then configuring everything so it's user friendly. Worth considering.
Regards, Nick Justin Walker wrote: > (For some reason my messages to the usergroup keep getting rejected - > feel free to forward this on if you feel it would be globally useful) > > I would suggest sshfs and fuse - I have a media server machine running > Ubuntu, and a variety of Linux and windows machines that mount folders > from it using sshfs. The configuration is minimal, and should work > easily on OSX. In windows you need 3rd party software (I use sftpdrive). > > The benefit is that once you mount the folder, it behaves as if it > were a local folder, and yet is completely secure (all data travels > via encrypted SSH tunnel), you need an account on the server machine > with appropriate permissions, and you have to log in with your > username and password when you mount the folder. > > To do so (commands for Ubuntu): > 1) Make sure the openssh server is installed and running on your > server machine (|sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client)| > 2) Install sshfs on the client machine(s) (sudo apt-get install sshfs) > 3) Add your account to the fuse group (sudo adduser yourname fuse) > [you may need to log out and back in again at this point] > 4) create a mount point for the remote folder (mkdir ~/remote) > 5) mount the folder (sshfs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:path/to/folder ~/remote) > > You'll be prompted to accept the key (if you have never ssh'd to that > server before) and for your password. > > To unmount, use 'fusermount -u ~/remote' > > sshfs for OSX is available (eg: > http://www.pqrs.org/tekezo/macosx/sshfs/), syntax should be similar. > > Hope that does what you want. > > - Justin Walker > > Nick Cummings wrote: >> As I mentioned a while back, I have a LAN at home with a couple of >> computers on it and want a convenient way to share files, mainly so we >> can put our music on a centralized file server and listen to it from any >> computer in the house. The only computers I care about connecting are >> running Ubuntu or OS X. I'd certainly like to be able to limit who on >> the LAN can access the files, and I'd prefer to also find something that >> would support the Unix file permissions on the disk. What's the best >> way to share these files? >> I've used Samba for this in the past, which worked okay, but is a little >> weird with permissions due to its Windows origins. That was an >> acceptable solution, but not ideal, and I ended up spending some time >> fine-tuning the smb.conf file. Maybe NFS is a better option? Or can >> WebDAV be used for this reasonably (I asked about this possibility in >> the past)? As I said, Samba was a little bit of a pain to get working >> the way I wanted. Is there a better solution or an equally good but >> especially easy solution? >> >> Thanks for suggestions, >> >> Nick >> >> >> >>
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