On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 05:24 +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > Hi. > > At work we have a bunch of NFS servers. The servers provide the home > directories for all the employees client machines. > > Most of the employees mount their home dirs manually, but some are > mounted using scripts. Employee John knows he belongs to NFS server 1, > and emplyoee Britney knows she belongs to NFS server 3 and so on. > > Now due to new conditions I have to set up a new system from which ALL > employees are able to mount their home directories from their homes > (where they live). Since I only have one IP address at my disposal, I > need to set up some kind of union system in which all home directories > apear as they live on just one server. Besides that I have to figure > out what kind of security I need to use. I have been thinking about > AFS, and also NFS tunneled via OpenSSH. > > About the union thing I first thought of somehow union mouting all the > different home directories on a single machine which then serves as > the access point, but I am affraid if that particular machine crashes, > then no one can get to their files. > > Good ideas and experiences are greatly appreciated! Lookup sshfs (or shfs as it is commonly know) it is completely at the whim of the user. They use an existing well known, well vetted daemon (openssh-server) and in a local environment (meaning no slow links) with 100Mbit/sec, I get nearly line speed transfer rates (100Mbit/sec == 11MByte/sec). Though you will need to beef up end user knowledge about strong passwords and key-auth only authentication, it'll more than makeup for the traveling or remote user. I can say that sshfs is probably the singe best thing I've seen come along in a long time. Mainly because, if you already have established good SSH practices, there is really no additional server-side setup you need to use. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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