From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 18:53:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1949F106567F for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:53:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.copeland@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA868FC2A for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:53:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.copeland@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so31410qwb.7 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:53:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SSdDEzGpCAj/RkUPpHUdSNc2mVI+kXBLMrYkAkvqjgA=; b=fqS0FRHu9nVamtMpNplJPC2s+P6uNRKqCdNMDczlPATaaVluEt4pvi3V84bJ1mUrjz nA3TsMzoPmt327eb+WD7ss9Z2qigETq03i0lgxvjtHhkf5LCr8uoh4caCpuhGd3xll8Q 42Y+m5uV63lF+Uwx4NDkOEOxNb3TZn0INfLM8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=V+PjvsGalllUO73OiYNtHGjQzFdA6K8ackj/90NpSl3oHqDaOyKJFr+AOKaqBQZpMi J55mU/pO2COGMY/sK80IXECRE6qTAzQZ16IexDfOD0Y7ZAwK5tXaKfbz/7SSzKFvb0Ga zPMUDisq9fnjgaOX/j8sBxDkUYU2o4zfuEwBc= Received: by 10.214.114.20 with SMTP id m20mr27231290qac.107.1231872814195; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:53:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.104? (adsl-074-245-053-043.sip.jax.bellsouth.net [74.245.53.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm3897690ywp.18.2009.01.13.10.53.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:53:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <496CE328.5010200@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:53:28 -0500 From: Michael Copeland User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <52EE2606-11D3-42E8-BE4C-E287285330CC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <52EE2606-11D3-42E8-BE4C-E287285330CC@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jhall@socket.net Subject: Re: NFS or an alternative? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:53:38 -0000 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Jay Hall wrote: >> I am in the process of redesigning my organization's network. And, >> since we will be using mostly Macintosh OS X clients, I am >> considering using NFS. However, I will need the ability to perform >> user/group authentication since users may not always log in from the >> same PC. >> >> Essentially, each user has a home directory which only they, and >> possibly their secretary, needs to have access to. And, we have >> directories which groups of people need access to. > > Given the above requirements, Samba/CIFS is probably a better match > for what you are doing that NFS would be. you could try webdav. apple's "iDisk". i have used this on our corporate network for a while now, and allows mounting from any workstation. > >> From the reading I have done this evening, my understanding is NFSv4 >> will meet all of these needs. Is this correct? And, is there a >> better way to accomplish this? > > Note that Apple only ships NFSv3-aware software, and I'm not sure > whether FreeBSD supports NFSv4 yet either. There appears to be > external work here: > > http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/nfsv4/ > http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ > > ...which you might look into. > > Regards,