What is the Best Remote Filesystem?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday December 18, 2003 @02:04AM from the sucking-your-files-through-a-straw dept.

GaelenBurns asks: "I've got a project that I'd like the Slashdot community's opinion of. We have two distant office buildings and a passel of windows users that need to be able to access the files on either office's Debian server from either location through Samba shares. We tend to think that AFS would be the best choice for mounting a remote file system and keeping data synchronized, but we're having trouble finding documentation that coherently explains installing AFS. Furthermore, NFS doesn't seem like a good option, since I've read that it doesn't fail gracefully should the net connection ever drop. Others, such as Coda and Intermezzo, seem to be stuck in development, and therefore aren't sufficiently stable. I know tools for this must exist, please enlighten me."

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samba+openssh+putty for your win32 clients by blumpy · 2003-12-18 04:14 · Score: 1, Redundant

Simple. You have samba already, setup openssh on a machine with nics on the inside and outside of your network.
On your win32 clients, setup putty (use latest dev version) with a tunnel to port 139 to your fileserver, map the network drive on windows as \\127.0.0.1\sharename
That's it! A free solution.