Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:48:38 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Jay Hall <jhall@socket.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS or an alternative? Message-ID: <52EE2606-11D3-42E8-BE4C-E287285330CC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <A881A8FA-98C7-4AF5-A3FA-2F4CAC739605@socket.net> References: <A881A8FA-98C7-4AF5-A3FA-2F4CAC739605@socket.net>
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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. > 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, -- -Chuck
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