Re: Filesystem export...
On 17 Aug 2001 11:26:26 +0300, Martin Fluch wrote:
> Heips!
>
> Is there a network filesystem existing for which a user space server
> exists, which doesn't need root privileges to run, and which uses the TCP
> protocol (and not the UDP)?
>
> The situation is, that I want to mount parts of a filesystem on my
> personal linux box. The filesystem I want to mount is from an other linux
> box I can access only by SSH (the reason for that is, that my linux box is
> connected to the network through a wireless lan, and for security reasosn
> only a very small amount of ports to certain kind of computers are open).
> I don't have root rights there, but I'm allowed to run a user space
> server.
>
> I've thought about nfs, but also if I alter the protmaper source such that
> it will use an unprivileged port to listen to, there is still the problem,
> that it needs the UDP protocol which I can't forward by SSH. Any other
> options?
There is a "very experimental" option for tcp based nfs in
kernel-source-2.2.19 that isn't in the 2.4 stuff. I don't know if it's
been abandoned or put back under the experimental radar. Perhaps some
kernel-list archives would shed some light on it's ultimate fate.
--mike
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