Re: [Nolug] Sharing File Systems

http://www.howtoforge.com/iscsi_on_linux

Is actually a rather thorough tutorial/explanation in reference to the protocol.

Just make sure to stick with Open-iSCSI :)

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:40 PM, John Souvestre <johns@sstar.com> wrote:
> 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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