On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:11:36PM +0100, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an OpenBSD (file-)server at a remote location on the internet
> that is around 137ms away from an OS X 10.4 laptop.
>
> Is there a way to securely mount OpenBSD's filesystems from OS X in
> such a setting?
>
> Is using ssh port forwarding along with samba or nfs over tcp my only
> solution here? Which is likely to be faster -- nfs over tcp or samba?
>
> The first thing I don't like about smbfs clients is that they always
> use port 139, and there is no way to specify a different port, which
> is really annoying...
>
> Whilst looking at this topic now, I found sshfs.org, but there doesn't
> seem to be any activity around it since late 2003.
As others pointed out, some VPN might be useful.
If you can get both sides to talk AFS, performance might be a little
better, due to extensive caching. Or not.
Joachim
