Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:33 PM, <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Sharing files can be done via SCP/SFTP. If a VPN connection is used, > > then even NFS or FTP are possibilities. > > I have 100 computers. I want a user on those 100 computers to be able > to share a file on their computer with just me. On windows they just > right-click and pick sharing, search for my name on the domain, and > grant me permissions. You're not going to get an experience anything > like that with scp or nfs or ftp. Heck, nfs is almost completely > insecure in the way most people use it.
I'm an absolute windows noop. I only use it for graphics work. I even didn't know that such a kind of file sharing is possible with it. :-) > I don't just want to copy a file from point A to point B. I want to > have a robust set of permissions and security and so on behind that. > If a user changes their password, that password gets them access to > everything they used to have access to, and none of those random > clients ever see the password. > > Sure, you can do it on linux with lots of NFSv4 and kerberos and all > that. But it is painful to set up and almost nobody actually seems to > do it as a result. You can also do something like Bitlocker on linux, > but there isn't a single distro that supports it out of the box > because it uses a lot of features nobody has bothered to seriously > develop. (Before somebody points out LUKS, be aware that Bitlocker > lets you do full-disk encyption that is secure without having to > actually type a decryption key at any point. Remove the hard drive or > boot from a CD, and the disks are unreadable - you can only read them > if you boot off them on the original PC.) I never thought about such operating ranges. But maybe these are some of the reasons why windows held 43% of the server OS market share in Q4/2013, according to an article that I read some months ago. > It is just a bit frustrating to behold. But, I'm getting what I'm > paying for, so... :) That's right. I think that the effort and the outlay to implement all these features into Linux is relative high. It seems that no vendor is willing to assume such a financial risk. Maybe it is time for another crowd founding campaign? ;-) -- Regards wabe
