[lug] Silly Question

[Holshouser, David]

As I've heard mentioned before, NFS is insecure.
Is there a better way, a recommended way, to share/mount drives securely. 

I am looking forward to moving a box and finding a way to share a dir across
the Internet and would like to find a way to make this transparent to the
end users.

Anything that would suffice?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott A. Herod [mailto:herod at interact-tv.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 9:50 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Silly Question
> 
> 
> The really short answer is NFS.
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/index.html
> 
> A longer answer, One machine (the one with the disk) acts as 
> the server.
> It needs to start nfs, "/etc/init.d/nfs start" and have an export list
> that looks like:
> 
> /share/music       *.my-domain.com(rw)
> /share/games       *.my-domain.com(rw)
> /share/toys        *.my-domain.com(rw)
> /share/stuff       *.my-domain.com(rw)
> 
> This lise needs to be exported using exportfs ( man exportfs ).
> 
> The client machine needs to have a mount list in /etc/fstab with lines
> like:
> 
> host.my-domain.com:/share/music     /mp/music    nfs     
> exec,dev,suid,rw,bg 1 1 
> 
> Then mount everything on the client with 'mount -a'.
> 
> All of this should be carefully hidden behind a firewall because NFS
> mounting
> is very insecure.  I've probably left out a bunch of stuff.  If the
> HOWTO
> doesn't help, I'm happy to anwer other questions.
> 
> Scott
> 
> Shannon Johnston wrote:
> > 
> > Here's a silly question - I just realized I've never done it before.
> > How do you share drives between linux machines?
> > 
> > Shannon Johnston
> > nunar at nunar.com
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