Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3156 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 23 December 2007 08:10:47 primm wrote:
> On Friday 21 December 2007 20:28:04 Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > On Friday 21 December 2007 11:10, primm wrote:
> > > > NFS is kind of ugly itself, don't you think?
> > >
> > > Ugly? Naah! It's soooo neat. With nis and nfs anyone can login
> > > anywhere and get their own files and start work right after they've
> > > got a coffee. It just works. Just like NT server before someone
> > > downloded a virus.
> >
> > Well, I guess if someone else is configuring and maintaining it, sure,
> > it's wonderful.
>
> I setup  an nfs server to export /home to 5 other clients. The same server
> handles nis logins. No eggageration, it took me 1/2 hour most of which was
> reading man exports until I discovered that Yast had read it for me
> already! I'll bet that some gurus on this list could do it in 5.
>
> Just curious, but what are my alternatives for nfs?
> Love from L

nfs is good, it mostly just works. But v3 has drawbacks in security, so if 
you're not in total control of the network, it might not be so good

nfsv4 + kerberos can provide real authentication and encryption though, so you 
still don't have to abandon nfs

Anders

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