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Understanding NFS

Posted by michael on from the things-man-was-not-meant-to-know dept.

LiquidPC writes: "ONLamp.com's Big Scary Daemons section has yet another great new BSD article, this one on Understanding NFS and using it in FreeBSD."

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  1. What about security??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm appalled that he considers IP address matching to be a way of preventing abuse. Sure, his cable modem is a separate interface so he can use a firewall to block it. But what if you're on a large untrusted LAN and you want to share files between two machines? I have exactly this problem (I have a laptop and a desktop at university) and I'm still looking for a simple yet secure way to share between them without allowing anyone to just spoof the IP address (and preferrably without transmitting my secret plans for world domination over the wire in the clear).