Sorry for the LATE replies. I sent these the other day, but I think they
went out with the wrong email addy so they didn't make it.
-- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ Dustin Puryear wrote: > I agree with Kevin: Avoid NFS and Samba here. If you are going to bring > up a VPN then you have more options, but barring that you need to stay > away from those two. > > SSHFS looks cool. > > And there is AFS. > > Or what about just an 'rsync -o ssh' script for /usr/local/scripts? In > this situation, having a local master with: > > /usr/local/site > /usr/local/site/bin > /usr/local/site/conf > /usr/local/site/logs > > may make sense, and you just rsync everything (other than logs) to the > remote boxes every 30 min or so. > > Puppet and the other tools are great, but they may be overkill here. > Still, nifty stuff. > > -- > Dustin Puryear > President and Sr. Consultant > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > 225-706-8414 x112 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ > > > John Souvestre 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 >> <mailto: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 >> >> >> ___________________ >> Nolug mailing list >> nolug@nolug.org <mailto:nolug@nolug.org> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. >> Click here to report this message as spam. < >> http://esva.puryear-it.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id= > > > ___________________ > Nolug mailing list > nolug@nolug.org > > -- > This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > Click here to report this message as spam. > http://esva.puryear-it.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id= > > ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 01/06/09
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