NFS over SSH

jt42 · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 9:21 pm Post subject: NFS over SSH

Does anyone have any pointers for implementing this kind of madness?

Can NFS as TCP be tunnelled over SSH?

Any alternatives?

mlynx · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 27

The NFS Howto (http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/) has step by step instructions on how to do this, see section 6 - Securing NFS. The short answer is yes, although I never got my NFS shares to export properly.

I wound up using SMB over SSH. Basically a similar setup to the NFS solution.

Nutshell explanation: You set up a SSH session that forwards the RPC ports to the server. The session then takes place on the server as if it were a local connection and is forwarded back to the client.

Good Luck.
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leonov · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:20 pm Post subject: Madness!

NFS over SSH? or SMB? Madness!

It's great (awsome!) that we can do this sort of crazyness if we want to - my question is, why would you want to? I'd hate to have some flakely remote fs mounted on my machine - you just get different problems depeding on whether you mounted it hard or soft...

Depending on what you are trying to achieve, there may be a better way - I always try to look for alternatives once my 'logical' solutions start to approach this level of crazyness.

Still, it'd be pretty damn cool...

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

alternatives?
SHFS ssh filesystem :-)

(and u gotta love the new online portage system)

it is what it says, and only the client needs shfs installed.

MacMasta · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 4:29 am Post subject:

The best-of-all solution is to wait until NFSv4 is widespread (or at least available on the machines you're using) because it's got that built in.

~Mac~

swingarm · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:43 am Post subject:

http://lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs/intro.html

It's in portage.