Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 05:19:21 +0800 From: "Peter Membrey" <miggyx@peteslan.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: exporting/exposing directory over the Internet? Message-ID: <bca11b1e0810031419v48658f04h664b150b82a1459d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6e5cf6a70810031306h589c56c0udb373befd4cc0f66@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e5cf6a70810031306h589c56c0udb373befd4cc0f66@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Joachim, If I were setting something like this up, I would make sure that it was done over a VPN. OpenVPN is a pretty neat solution that works easily on all of the platforms you'll be using. It's very straight forward to set up and will give you a secure network that you can run whatever file sharing solution you want. If you ensure that you are only offering the resource via the VPN, you can be sure (OpenVPN supports certificate and password based authentication) that only trust people will be able to see the service, much less access it. I have noticed that there isn't a section on OpenVPN in the handbook - I guess I should contribute one :) Cheers, Pete 2008/10/4 Joachim Rosenfeld <joerosenfeld@gmail.com>: > I wish to store some files on my FreeBSD 7 server that will be used by > various clients (FreeBSD, Windows, and Linux). What is a good way to > export a directory so that it can be mounted on various systems and > seen as a local directory? > > NFS is out, for security reasons. > > I was thinking of Samba, but I'm not sure of the security implications > of using it over the public Internet. > > Somebody mentioned WebDAV, but I'm not familiar with it at all and I'm > not sure if it can do what I need it to do. > > Any recommendations? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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