On Thursday 16 May 2002 05:38 pm, John Schieferle Uhlenbrock wrote:
> In a couple of weeks I'll be redesigning my network and while thinking I
> was wondering of any secure and expandable designs for this. I'll be
> running NetBSD on most of the machines but I will also be allowing
> Windows machines to connect to the fileserver. I want to be able to
> allow quick and easy (secure) access between the servers for data
> transfer as in mounting them. I would also like to enable a user login
> system that uses a mysql db or the sort for the network. I was told to
> use NIS and NFS but those are neither secure no use mysql.
>
> - John
you can mount nfs volumes over ssh, all the stuff you'll need is here:
http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/snfs/
If it's just stuff for synchronizing data on servers, you might consider using
rsync with scp.
