Re: [Nolug] Sharing File Systems

From: Jonathan Roberts <gremln007_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:23:58 -0600
Message-ID: <fcbad9f30901051423udc311e8we86e38ff4a7b7924@mail.gmail.com>

What about rsync over ssh?

On 1/2/09, 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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