Re: mounting a remote directory
On (15/11/05 16:26), Joseph H. Fry wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 November 2005 12:01 pm, Tony Heal wrote:
> > couple of questions for those more in the know than me. [which probably
> > means everybody. :) ]
> >
> > I am running Debian/sarge
> >
> > What are the various ways to mount a remote directory for seamless use by a
> > service running on a parent server?
> >
> > I only know nfs. Is this the best way? Is this the most secure?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tony Heal
> > Pace Systems Group, Inc.
> > 800-624-5999
> > theal@pace2020.com
>
> http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/stirling/computergeek/lufs.html
>
> Probably more secure implementation than NFS, especially if the remote
> filesystem is only excessable via a public network (the internet). However
> NFS is by far the most documented and thus supported method for this. Oh and
> there is smbfs to mount MS file systems, but I don't really recommend it
> unless it's the only way (IE you need to mount a windows share).
We have Linux, Windows and OSX clients and initially used both NFS and
Samba. However, there were three reasons we decided to standardise all
clients on Samba:
NFS is allegedly less secure
To make it more secure an option is to authenticate with IP address but
it's not very easy to manage unless you use fixed IP addresses which for
other reasons is not necessarily convenient; we use dhcp
Simplicity, ie. managing one networking environment as opposed to two.
Thanks for the link on LUFS/SHFS I must explore further :)
Regards
Clive
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