On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 11:29 -0600, Brent Thomson wrote: > I'm interested in mounting a remote drive over the internet. I'm aware > of the security concerns associated with NFS <=3 (lack of authentication > being one). > > Has anybody set up Samba or NFS4 drives to be mapped by a host somewhere > on the internet? Sun states that one of the primary aims of NFS4 was to > enable the secure mounting of drives over the internet, not just > insecure mapping on a LAN. I spent a few hours with NFS4 without much luck. > > In my searching, I've seen references to kerberos being used with NFS4. > Are there other authentication mechanisms that can be used? I'd rather > not spend a ton of time figuring out kerberos just so that I can play > with NFS4.
I set up a simple openvpn tunnel and run normal nfs across that. > > -Brent > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
