Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:53:28 -0500 From: Michael Copeland <michael.copeland@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: jhall@socket.net Subject: Re: NFS or an alternative? Message-ID: <496CE328.5010200@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52EE2606-11D3-42E8-BE4C-E287285330CC@mac.com> References: <A881A8FA-98C7-4AF5-A3FA-2F4CAC739605@socket.net> <52EE2606-11D3-42E8-BE4C-E287285330CC@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Jay Hall wrote: >> I am in the process of redesigning my organization's network. And, >> since we will be using mostly Macintosh OS X clients, I am >> considering using NFS. However, I will need the ability to perform >> user/group authentication since users may not always log in from the >> same PC. >> >> Essentially, each user has a home directory which only they, and >> possibly their secretary, needs to have access to. And, we have >> directories which groups of people need access to. > > Given the above requirements, Samba/CIFS is probably a better match > for what you are doing that NFS would be. you could try webdav. apple's "iDisk". i have used this on our corporate network for a while now, and allows mounting from any workstation. > >> From the reading I have done this evening, my understanding is NFSv4 >> will meet all of these needs. Is this correct? And, is there a >> better way to accomplish this? > > Note that Apple only ships NFSv3-aware software, and I'm not sure > whether FreeBSD supports NFSv4 yet either. There appears to be > external work here: > > http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/nfsv4/ > http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ > > ...which you might look into. > > Regards,
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