What linux lacks most - a decent remote fs

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 13:01:29 UTC 2008


I used unix/linux for many years.  In the past we've used nfs.  But nfsv3
has no (useful) authentication.  Anyone can setup a rogue machine and
pretend to be any uid/gid.

I understand that nfsv4 was supposed to fix that.  Looking at the docs I
could find, it appears I'll never live long enough to understand how to set
that up, and I haven't yet found the idiot's guide to setting up nfsv4 with
authentication.

For now I'm using cifs.  That's pretty sad.

I've glanced at afs, but there's no Fedora package.




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