[clug-talk] What to do about "portablility"

Roy Souther roy at silicontao.com
Thu Oct 13 09:56:14 PDT 2005


You can do NFS over SSH tunnel but sshfs is very easy and works great.
http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:45 -0600, Nick Wiltshire wrote:

> NFS is easy to implement and completely transparent. Probably not your best 
> bet for remote access, though I wouldn't be surprised if someone knew how to 
> tunnel NFS through VPN or SSH.
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 10:41 pm, Killer Smurf wrote:
> > Hello all. I'm sure my questions are a bit simplistic but I'm going to ask
> > anyway. I'm running Breezy (5.10) with Gnome
> > on all of these computers.
> >
> > 1> I'm looking for a way to interconnect my computers (2 desktops and 1
> > laptop) to share files between them. I think I'll use samba even if I have
> > no win boxes in use. Is this the best way?
> >
> > 2> Also with the laptop I would like to be able to connect when I'm not on
> > my home network (SSH?) or is there something else that would be more
> > suited?
> >
> > 3> If I do use SSH can I set it up to be ReadOnly (CopyOnly) or is SSH
> > fairly secure and can I use putty from the work computers to access my
> > system ( The work computers are win.)
> >
> > 4> Any good HOWTO's for a beginner would be great.
> >
> > You all have been a great help to my wife and I Thank You again
> >
> > Frank
> 
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