[Gllug] Fileserver over WAN

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 17:12, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> > From: Richard Cottrill [mailto:richard_c at tpg.com.au]
> > Subject: RE: [Gllug] Fileserver over WAN
> > 
> > I wouldn't recommend nfs; the authentication/permissions 
> > system is pretty
Agreed.

> > ropey. Do you wan to be able to browse the file? Will your 
> > clients be Linux
> > too?
> 
> Could you set up a VPN to the server from the clients and then you could use
> NFS or whatever you wanted but just remember to only allow it over IPSec.
> 
Good.


A quick google on 'secure NFS' turns up
http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/snfs/
Lord know if it works or not (and how old this page is)
 - but there's only one way to find out!



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