From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 18:48:39 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 3ED3D106568D for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:48:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247738FC2F for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:48:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay12.apple.com (relay12.apple.com [17.128.113.53]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 091B34E6E189; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:48:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay12.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay12.apple.com (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with ESMTP id E3E8E464004; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:48:38 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807135-a5c3dbb0000070cb-be-496ce206d60c Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.227.140.124]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay12.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id C4B8C420004; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:48:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <52EE2606-11D3-42E8-BE4C-E287285330CC@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Jay Hall In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:48:38 -0800 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 18:48:39 -0000 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. > 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, -- -Chuck