Herman
Ummm... excuse me, but what planet are you from? NFS from a Windows person? NFS is perfectly suitable for a LAN application on UNIX platforms. Yes, SSL is more secure, but exactly how are you proposing to use SSL in a file server application? Using FreeSWAN would be fine for protection, but you still need the file sharing protocol.
Yes. I get a lot of people who write to me who go on about using Samba across an internal network. I come back a week later and find them using it over the net. Then they accuse me of not telling them about network security. So, these days I tell them first and let them work it out later. When you write for a lot of computing magazines as I do you have to think about these things. Better safe than sorry :) -- Richard