exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?
I wish to store some files on my FreeBSD 7 server that will be used by various clients (FreeBSD, Windows, and Linux). What is a good way to export a directory so that it can be mounted on various systems and seen as a local directory? NFS is out, for security reasons. I was thinking of Samba, but I'm not sure of the security implications of using it over the public Internet. Somebody mentioned WebDAV, but I'm not familiar with it at all and I'm not sure if it can do what I need it to do. Any recommendations? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?
Hi Joachim, If I were setting something like this up, I would make sure that it was done over a VPN. OpenVPN is a pretty neat solution that works easily on all of the platforms you'll be using. It's very straight forward to set up and will give you a secure network that you can run whatever file sharing solution you want. If you ensure that you are only offering the resource via the VPN, you can be sure (OpenVPN supports certificate and password based authentication) that only trust people will be able to see the service, much less access it. I have noticed that there isn't a section on OpenVPN in the handbook - I guess I should contribute one :) Cheers, Pete 2008/10/4 Joachim Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wish to store some files on my FreeBSD 7 server that will be used by various clients (FreeBSD, Windows, and Linux). What is a good way to export a directory so that it can be mounted on various systems and seen as a local directory? NFS is out, for security reasons. I was thinking of Samba, but I'm not sure of the security implications of using it over the public Internet. Somebody mentioned WebDAV, but I'm not familiar with it at all and I'm not sure if it can do what I need it to do. Any recommendations? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?
Use SFTP (aka SSH file sharing) and mount the folder's using SftpDrive on Windows and various tools are available for doing that under UNIX. On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Joachim Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I wish to store some files on my FreeBSD 7 server that will be used by various clients (FreeBSD, Windows, and Linux). What is a good way to export a directory so that it can be mounted on various systems and seen as a local directory? NFS is out, for security reasons. I was thinking of Samba, but I'm not sure of the security implications of using it over the public Internet. Somebody mentioned WebDAV, but I'm not familiar with it at all and I'm not sure if it can do what I need it to do. Any recommendations? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 00:18 +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: Use SFTP (aka SSH file sharing) and mount the folder's using SftpDrive on Windows and various tools are available for doing that under UNIX. Wouldn't an ssl version of webdav do the same sort of thing without all the extra hassle in (heaven forbid) window$? I think there is a network folder system that can access webdav on the M$ crap, and I believe there is a webdavs in the apache modules. Correct me if I'm wrong... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
