exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?

2008-10-03 Thread Joachim Rosenfeld
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,

Re: exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?

2008-10-03 Thread Peter Membrey
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

Re: exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?

2008-10-03 Thread Ross Cameron
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

Re: exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?

2008-10-03 Thread Da Rock
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