From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 21:44:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568AA1065689 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 21:44:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pmembrey@naniteservices.co.uk) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36BF48FC0C for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 21:44:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pmembrey@naniteservices.co.uk) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so1634877rvf.43 for ; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.114.19 with SMTP id r19mr967264rvm.295.1223068761589; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.146.15 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 05:19:21 +0800 From: "Peter Membrey" Sender: pmembrey@naniteservices.co.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <6e5cf6a70810031306h589c56c0udb373befd4cc0f66@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6e5cf6a70810031306h589c56c0udb373befd4cc0f66@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 76d84ff78d601181 Subject: Re: exporting/exposing directory over the Internet? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:44:50 -0000 Hi Joachim, If I were setting something like this up, I would make sure that it was done over a VPN. OpenVPN is a pretty neat solution that works easily on all of the platforms you'll be using. It's very straight forward to set up and will give you a secure network that you can run whatever file sharing solution you want. If you ensure that you are only offering the resource via the VPN, you can be sure (OpenVPN supports certificate and password based authentication) that only trust people will be able to see the service, much less access it. I have noticed that there isn't a section on OpenVPN in the handbook - I guess I should contribute one :) Cheers, Pete 2008/10/4 Joachim Rosenfeld : > I wish to store some files on my FreeBSD 7 server that will be used by > various clients (FreeBSD, Windows, and Linux). What is a good way to > export a directory so that it can be mounted on various systems and > seen as a local directory? > > NFS is out, for security reasons. > > I was thinking of Samba, but I'm not sure of the security implications > of using it over the public Internet. > > Somebody mentioned WebDAV, but I'm not familiar with it at all and I'm > not sure if it can do what I need it to do. > > Any recommendations? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >