On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:45:20PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 18 October 2005 12:05 pm, David Dawson wrote: > > I am experimenting with NSF mounts over the internet. > > So far, the share works on the local network between my two local > > machines, but only "sort of" on the remote machine. > NFS may be attempting to use UDP - Unreliable Datagram Protocol (IIRC). Mount using TCP/IP. Be aware the protocol wasn't necessarily designed for use over a very wide area network - mounting it to one machine and then using ssh between machines is a better bet. Alternatively, shfs and sfs are available as Debian packages and might be better in this situation.
> Try setting up a VPN with the remote network and using that for communication > between the two sites. NFS might have a better shot at working well if it's > only crossing "one" network (not to mention having NFS through a secure > tunnel is more secure). Seconded. HTH, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
