Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:43:11 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Share folder over internet Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070816134035.0262cff8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <46C4905A.1020202@shopzeus.com> References: <46C4905A.1020202@shopzeus.com>
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At 12:58 PM 8/16/2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>Here is a problem that I cannot solve. I have two offices with two file
>servers (FreeBSD 6.1). Clients are accessing files over samba and nfs (on
>the local server). I would like to share some directory structures between
>the two offices. Originally I was thinking about sshfs (mount_sshfs) but I
>cannot compile fuse from the ports. NFS cannot share subdirectories, only
>whole filesystems and it is not secure to use over the internet.
>
>Security inside the LAN is not important. Most of these folders are "put
>everything into it" type, e.g. anyone can do anything with them. The users
>usually store doc, pdf, xls/gnumeric and txt files in them.
>
>I'm not interested in solutions where the end user needs to use a special
>program to access the files. For example, gftp is not an option. This is
>because these users sometimes does not know what a file is. I need
>nautilus integration, and mounting/mapping so the files can be opened from
>any program using file/open.
>
>What should I use?
You need to create a VPN connection between your two offices. You can do
this in a variety of ways, but probably the best solution would be to have
static IP's for both offices and a router that has hardware support for
VPNs at each office. You can connect the two offices via a VPN connection
from router to router.
-Derek
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