NFS over SSH tunnels works for me.... Not extremely fast, but encrypted traffic rarely is. Since SSH is free or nearly free, it's worth a shot before using anything expensive and/or restricted to a single OS. NFS and SSH is a winning combo if your environment is mixed (alll mojor UNIXes, NT/2000), and adds the benefit of proper authentication.
Hope this helps. - Jared Lovell On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Philippe Seidel wrote: > Hello, > > I just want to set up a central file server offering both public > shares and private stuff (home directories and stuff like this) on an > OpenBSD box. > Everything well, until I realized that both samba and NFS will pass > everything unencrypted through the network. > > Now my question: > Are there any free (speech or beer) network-filesystems offering both > optional encryption (for the public shares it just gives > away computing time) as well as also optional secure (kerberos?) user > authentication available both for *nixes (meanpart Linux) *and* > Windows 9x? Eventually two different systems, one for the *nixes and > one for the windows-machines. > > Someone in this list just mentioned NFS+, but I didn't find anything > at a short google search. > What about an encrypted SMB share? > Or this mysterious thing I saw in the Linux kernel... Coda? > > Thanks in advance, > Philippe > >
