RE: [Nolug] Sharing File Systems

Hi Dennis.

Thanks. I hadn't heard of ISCSI.

John

   John Souvestre - Integrated Data Systems - (504) 355-0609

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@stoney.redfishnetworks.com [mailto:owner-
> nolug@stoney.redfishnetworks.com] On Behalf Of Dennis J Harrison Jr
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 6:39 PM
> To: nolug@nolug.org
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Sharing File Systems
>
> Just as an aside, Haven't checked this account in a few days. Not
> sure what you have decided to do. Kevin is right in that you should
> use something like cfengine. However, for future reference. If you
> want to do WAN file system sharing/mounting. Your two best options
> are fuse+ssh (sshfs/dokan/etc) or, better yet - ISCSI. In my opinion.
>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:22 PM, John Souvestre <johns@sstar.com> wrote:
> > Hi Kevin.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the info. Yep, I should probably check out the versioning
> > systems also.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
> >
> > John Souvestre - Integrated Data Systems - (504) 355-0609
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: owner-nolug@stoney.redfishnetworks.com
> > [mailto:owner-nolug@stoney.redfishnetworks.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Kreamer
> > Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 6:47 PM
> > To: nolug@nolug.org
> > Subject: Re: [Nolug] Sharing File Systems
> >
> >
> >
> > Call me paranoid, but I wouldn't want to put either a NFS or a Samba server
> > out on the Internet. SSHFS does have the benefit that you're probably
> > already running ssh on the servers. If you do go with either NFS or Samba,
> > then you'll probably need to use some sort of VPN software, as I don't
> > remember either generally encrypting network traffic.
> >
> > It sounds like you are mostly working on configuring servers and related
> > network services. I just wanted to point out that there is a whole class
> of
> > software focused on pushing configs from a central location, from things
> > like puppet, tripwire, and cfengine all the way up to LDAP/directory
> > servers. They're a bit more of a pain to set up initially, but allows you
> > to add servers easily and can provide side benefits like increased security
> > (no one changing configs behind your back), versioning support, and a
> > centralized place from which to do backups. Just an idea.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 18:59, John Souvestre <johns@sstar.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have two situations in which sharing the file system on a Linux box would
> > be
> > handy. I'm looking at NFS, Samba and SSHFS. Any others I should be
> > considering?
> >
> > 1) This application is to allow access from one Linux box (master) to two
> > other
> > Linux boxes (slaves). The purpose is to allow scripting to keep the
> configs
> > for
> > some DNS servers tightly coordinated and easy to change. It's light duty
> as
> > not
> > much data will be moved and speed isn't important either.
> >
> > 2) This is to allow access from various Windows machines to various Linux
> > (and
> > a couple of FBSD) boxes for miscellaneous maintenance activities, editing
> > mostly. I haven't found a Linux editor I like enough to use for anything
> > other
> > than light editing. :)
> >
> > In both cases security and reliability must be great as the Linux boxes are
> > mostly online servers of various types. All the boxes are on the Internet,
> > some
> > behind firewalls of various types. Some of the boxes (both Linux and
> > Windows)
> > will be outside our network thus making a secure connection desirable.
> >
> > From what I gather, for Linux to Linux I should go with either NFS or
> Samba.
> > Any pro's or con's here? I did read some people saying that NFS had
> > security
> > and locking problems sometimes and that it should be consider obsolete in
> > favor
> > of Samba.
> >
> > For Windows to Linux Samba is what I see most mentioned but Microsoft seems
> > to
> > have a nice NFS client available too, so I don't know.
> >
> > Then I ran across mention of SSHFS. If I understand correctly, this
> > requires no
> > setup on the Linux client boxes at all, just SSH. I like this because like
> > putting as little as possible on the servers.
> >
> > SSHFS also plays nice with firewalls which can be a problem sometimes for
> > NFS
> > and Samba (is this so?). Finally, everything is encrypted which is nice
> > should
> > a box be outside our network.
> >
> > I have seen two inexpensive SSHFS windows clients, SFTPDrive and WebDrive.
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
> >
> > John Souvestre - Integrated Data Systems - (504) 355-0609
> >
> >
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