On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 12:58 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
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
just my $0.02, If you are not in control of your network, use openswan or strongswan for vpn, and put nfs-v3 over it. We have been using it in a test for connecting several locations. Works ok. I've encountered only one nightmare situation: nfs over a tunnel over an satelite connection... probably due to the latency. One might even condider sshfs (available for SLEx and opensuse on http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/filesystems/ hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org