Re: NFS, Samba, something more obscure?
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 05:28:10PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> Now I have a tower and a laptop at home, and to share files it would be much
> easier to share a filesystem.
Depends how many files you need to share: I tend to shove stuff round
the network via scp. I like the fact that it does binary transfers and
checksums the transfer and is secure - but that's probably not effective
for 1000 files :)
>
> I've never used NFS, but everything I read says it's highly insecure. OTOH,
> my network sits behind a Belkin router with only my own systems as nodes.
>
You need to run portmapper and potentially pidentd or similar. This
obviously opens ports. Traffic across the network is in clear. If your
internal network is relatively secure - no problem. apt-get install
nfs-kernel-server on one and nfs-client on the other machine. Configure
one line in your /etc/fstab on the client side: add one line into
/etc/exports on the server side then type exportfs -a
/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop : /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start ;
mount the drive to test - and you're done :) Watch out for network glitches:
I have a drive NFS mounted at work where a 10M card is trying to talk to a
100M card and throwing errors - not fun.
> The other obvious choice would be Samba, which would have advantages since I
> sometimes boot my laptop into Windows XP. I also hear it's more secure than
> NFS (?) but much harder to set up.
No experience here
>
> For all I know there are other filesystem-sharing methods I'm not familiar
> with at all.
sshfs has been suggested as one solution: I'm not familiar with it.
>
Hope this helps, get back to me if you want more details,
Andy
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