Re: [Nolug] Sharing File Systems

Actually, from what you mentioned it kind of sounded like you were, but
just didn't realize it.

I think Brett mentioned that mounting would be more trouble than it's
worth, and I tend to agree. If you want to have a set of files available
everyone, including a few local config files, then rsync sounds like a
good route for you.

It didn't sound like every server was going to have its own directory on
the mount and be making changes to the files on that mount. If that
assumption is true, then replication is a good solution here.

At least I think so. ;)

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John Souvestre wrote:
> Hi Jonathan.
> 
> I'm not looking to synchronize systems.  :)
> 
> 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 Jonathan Roberts
>  > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:24 PM
>  > To: nolug@nolug.org
>  > Subject: Re: [Nolug] Sharing File Systems
>  > 
>  > 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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