Re: [Nolug] Sharing File Systems

Also, I just noticed the not found linux editor for anything but light editing.

What are you trying to do edit?

Try emacs, or geany, or eric4 (as I assume you have already thought
trash of my favorite, vim) :)

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:59 PM, 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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