----- Original Message ----- | James A. Peltier wrote: | | > Now, that said, is there anything that you could recommend instead | > of NFSv4 for offering secure file services to multiple platforms? | | Apache with SSL may be a solution. I've used it on small scale | projects. | You can auth users against LDAP, AD, etc. Should work with any client | that has a SSL capable web browser/client of some sort. It's very | portable, file system and client agnostic. | | The one downside (IMO) is that the clients won't see it as a native | file | system mount, but there are interfaces available and you can always | write your own or customize one to fit your needs. | | Your own little dropbox-ish solution. | | Brad
I deal with research data. Most of which are tens to hundreds of gigabytes in size, so it's not a solution for me, but we did evaluate that for some smaller scale uses. Our users are used to typing cd /cs/<some lab> and having their files be available to them. They are used to seeing the same files in the UNIX home as is in their Windows or Mac shares. This better describes what I mean by transparent. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier MSN : subatomic_s...@hotmail.com
