Re: Local filesharing (shfs solution found)

Just a quick follow up to my question about secure filesharing in Linux, for 
anyone who might be considering a similar problem.

I tried the fish protocol, but it doesn't permit actual *sharing* of files 
over the connection.  Since my goal was to get separate instances of Kontact 
on two different computers to share one calendar file at the same time, I 
needed true filesharing, à la NFS and a proper mount point.  Apparently, the 
back-end of the fish-protocol must be more analogous to FTP than true 
filesharing.

I did, however, found shfs, a kernel module, which permits mounting of remote 
filesystems over ssh.  For (k)ubuntu users, it can be found in the Universe 
repositories, and using module-assistant.

http://shfs.sourceforge.net/
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/30

Hope this might be useful to someone.

Ryan

On Thursday 02 June 2005 13:53, Daniel Harris wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Ryan Schiffbauer wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a good way of sharing files on a local network?
> >
> > I use the pseudo-Windows-filesharing program called Samba now, but I
> > would like to avoid it in favor an all-Linux approach. I have
> > considered NFS, but I read that it's quite insecure.
> >
> > I'm running Kubuntu 5.04. My aim is to be able to use my two calendar
> > programs on two separate machines on the local network to share one
> > calendar file. So I don't just want to be able to transfer files, I
> > need to share them (using a mount, presumably.)
> >
> > What do you guys(/gals?) use as a preferred way of sharing files
> > locally that isn't insecure? Any recommendations?
>
> Look up "linux network filesystems."  Anything insecure can become
> secure if you spend a little while to throw IPSec at it.
>
> Of course, you say you're on a local network.  Is it (physically)
> accessible to anybody else?  This might be heresy but some things don't
> need to be secure :-)
>
> In a homogenous network of my own design, I'd use NFS (mature, although
> in the past it's been a little flaky on Linux) over IPSec.  Because I'm
> usually coexisting with other operating systems, I tend to use Samba in
> real life.  And if you're running it on two Linux machines, that's an
> all-free-software approach.  There's no Microsoft in Samba.