Re: NFS shares over the internet

[David Dawson <beagle7@pacificcoast.net>]

Paul Johnson wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 October 2005 12:05 pm, David Dawson wrote:
>> I am experimenting with NSF mounts over the internet.
>> So far,  the share works on the local network between my two local
>> machines, but only "sort of" on the remote machine.
> 
> Try setting up a VPN with the remote network and using that for
> communication
> between the two sites.  NFS might have a better shot at working well if
> it's only crossing "one" network (not to mention having NFS through a
> secure tunnel is more secure).
> 
(Following up for the record)
I installed shfsmount on both machines and this works quite well.
Thanks to Anoop
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...Dave Dawson

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