Re: [ILUG] NFS over ssh?

From: Rick Moen (rick at domain linuxmafia.com)
Date: Wed 06 Jun 2001 - 17:59:18 IST


begin John P. Looney quotation:

> NFSv3 can run over tcp/ip - you would have to force it. You will also
> have to get it tunnelling mountd too. I don't think you can specifiy an
> alternate port for lockd though.

You'd also have to run "Secure Portmapper". And then, redirecting
TCP-style NFSv3 over SSH is alleged to be tricky and possibly never
actually yet done -- but I'd bet that it would also be dog slow.

Maybe AFS/Kerberos, instead? Look up OpenAFS and Arla.

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Rick Moen                                             -- Thomas Sowell
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