[aklug] Re: secure over-network filesystem

Quoting "Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@eeinternet.com>:

> On Tuesday 04 August 2009, barsalou said something like:
>> Quoting "Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@eeinternet.com>:
>> > Anyone have a suggestion for mounting a part of a file system
>> > securely over the network? iSCSI over SSH won't work (don't want
>> > to mount the device). SSHFS has shown itself to be unreliable
>> > (won't reconnect even when given the command line parameter to do
>> > so). Any other ideas?
>> >
>> > And yes I've googled...I've found the previously mentioned options.
>>
>> Use an ssh tunnel and mount via NFS?
>>
>> Your saying you don't want to mount the device....just the part of
>> the filesystem, right?
>
> I was reading up on that. A little more overhead than I wanted, but
> maybe more reliable than SSHFS. Although a cron job checking on SSHFS
> keeps it fairly reliable.
>

I've successfully shared SMB over a ssh tunnel, but if the links are =20
spotty this is a bad idea.

Mike B.

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Received on Tue Aug 4 18:02:32 2009