NFS, AFS and Samba

Fraser Campbell fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org
Mon Apr 16 13:20:16 UTC 2007


On Sunday 15 April 2007 12:33, Ansar Mohammed wrote:

> So what do the majority of you guys use out there?

I've been using NFS, usually with a dedicated VLAN for NFS traffic.

> I am finding NFS completely insecure unless I have 100% control over all my
> clients that are mounting volumes. Does anyone use AFS?

What about NFSv4, is it still a pipe dream or is it useable yet?  NFSv4 is 
supposed to handle encryption and authentication in a reasonably secure way.

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