Hi, I had the same problem and resolve it using nis and nfs. I am using data encryption - ipsec (freeswan) - for the communication between clients and server. Maybe it is a possible way for you too. Best regards, Ralf Farke, ps: I had just seen, you are a member of WWU like me. So, if you need more information, just call me. Ralf Farke Westf. Wilhelms-Universität Münster Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik Leonardo-Campus 3 Am Mi, 2004-06-02 um 16.29 schrieb January Weiner:
Hello,
I'm desperately trying to set up a secure file sharing server. It should support both user authentification and data encryption. It will run in a non-secure LAN and provide about 15 users with their home directories.
My first idea was to use NFS over SSH. However, for this you need to specify the ports rpc / nfs /nfslock use. It seems that in SuSE there is no way of specifying the nfslock port, is this correct? What am I doing wrong? How to do NFS over SSH in SuSE?
Samba would also be a possibility, however there are a couple of problems with that one:
1) problem with high UID's, we have UIDs >> 65535 and the mounted samba shares do not get proper permissions
2) is it true that Samba does not support special files (like sockets), thus rendering this file system unusable for the purpose of mounting home directories to use e.g. with KDE (which needs to create sockets)?
Am I wrong? What other possibilities are there?
Best regards,
January Weiner
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