From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 16 18:43:50 2007 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 54E1016A41B for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:43:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C5613C4DD for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:43:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l7GIhghA095824; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:43:42 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070816134035.0262cff8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:43:11 -0500 To: Laszlo Nagy , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <46C4905A.1020202@shopzeus.com> References: <46C4905A.1020202@shopzeus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Share folder over internet 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: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:43:50 -0000 At 12:58 PM 8/16/2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > Hi All, > >Here is a problem that I cannot solve. I have two offices with two file >servers (FreeBSD 6.1). Clients are accessing files over samba and nfs (on >the local server). I would like to share some directory structures between >the two offices. Originally I was thinking about sshfs (mount_sshfs) but I >cannot compile fuse from the ports. NFS cannot share subdirectories, only >whole filesystems and it is not secure to use over the internet. > >Security inside the LAN is not important. Most of these folders are "put >everything into it" type, e.g. anyone can do anything with them. The users >usually store doc, pdf, xls/gnumeric and txt files in them. > >I'm not interested in solutions where the end user needs to use a special >program to access the files. For example, gftp is not an option. This is >because these users sometimes does not know what a file is. I need >nautilus integration, and mounting/mapping so the files can be opened from >any program using file/open. > >What should I use? You need to create a VPN connection between your two offices. You can do this in a variety of ways, but probably the best solution would be to have static IP's for both offices and a router that has hardware support for VPNs at each office. You can connect the two offices via a VPN connection from router to router. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.