Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:32:35 -0800 From: "Timothy L. Robertson" <timothyr@timothyr.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Wan File Sharing: FBSD<==>OSX? Message-ID: <B868AA93.9940%timothyr@timothyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020114231618.76D9C5D1A@ptavv.es.net>
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Hi Everyone,
What is a good solution for sharing files between my FreeBSD server at home
and my OS X Powebook on the road. When I ran Windows I had no choice but t=
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tunnel ports 137 and 139 over SSH and run Samba. It worked OK, but because
of the UDP requirement of SMB it would often hang waiting for some timeout.
Now that I've got a full Unix layer under my laptop, I figure there must be
a better way. Requirements are:
Secure - both authentication and data should be protected by strong
encryption
Transparent - Should look just like a local filesystem
It would be great if it could also do
Cacheing - don=B9t have to copy over a large file to make small changes
Mirroring - Keep syncronized copies of data on both server and client
I suspect that if I can find a way to do the first two I can use vinum to d=
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the second two. The three solutions I'm aware of are SMB, NFS, and
AppleShare. The first two use UDP so are not suitable for SSH tunneling. =
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suppose I could set up a more robust VPN which would handle this.
AppleShare runs over TCP to the best of my understanding, and so might be a
good solution, but netatalk did not work for me right away and I'd like to
consider other options before I put any more effort into it. What do other
people do?
Thanks,
-Tim
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