nfs. samba, vpn.... ?

graudeejs

graudeejs

Hello!

Remember I told, that my family switched to GNU/Linux Ubuntu :D

Well... It looks like everyone is happy.

I'd like to set some kind of file sharing service....
Mostly I want laptop users to store {as backup} important files on my FreeBSD pc...
I need this to be very easy to do... so I got to the point where I can't decide what to use... nfs, samba, some sort of vpn.

I'd like to have fast connection, easy to manage [unmount/mount...], secure....

Just found out about security/tinc
Anyone have used it?

Any thoughts recommendations?

P.S.
I don't need to share printer over net...
 
It's a fairly simple choice really. If it's Windows clients, go with samba. If it's *nix, go NFS. If you have both, set up both :e
 
Hmm, is it possible to run NFS server in jail....
Search returns: No [without some patch]

is that true?
 
killasmurf86 said:
Hmm, is it possible to run NFS server in jail....
Search returns: No [without some patch]

is that true?
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AFAIK yes. The main problem seems to be that you can't bind mountd to a specific ip address. The only way to get that is to patch mountd.

You can still run it though, but it'll listen to all ip addresses.
 
Using shared storage is good, if you can get people to use it. :)

As an alternative (or in addition to), have a look at the different Rsync for Windows clients that are out there, and consider using one of those, along with Windows Scheduled Tasks, to do automated backups to a directory on the FreeBSD server.
 
SirDice said:
AFAIK yes. The main problem seems to be that you can't bind mountd to a specific ip address. The only way to get that is to patch mountd.

You can still run it though, but it'll listen to all ip addresses.
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What about the -h option to mountd, which is used to specify an IP to bind to.
 
phoenix said:
What about the -h option to mountd, which is used to specify an IP to bind to.
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Cool. That was added in August last year :beer

Before that you really needed to patch mountd.

So, you should be able to get it working. Provided you bind rpcbind, mountd and nfsd to a specific IP address.
 
OK, I setup NFS server on FreeBSD, and mounted nfs share on Ubuntu....

Uploading from Ubuntu to FreeBSD really sux.... ~80KB/s
Downloading From FreeBSD to Ubuntu is ~600KB/s

Any ideas why it's so?
Wifi card on Laptop can upload/download at 2.5MB/s {ye it sux as well, but that's another topic}
 
Using UDP or TCP for NFS? Did you specify a packet size in the mount options? Did you specify a read-ahead amount in the mount options?

There's lots of little things you can play around with in the NFS mount options that can really affect the performance of the mount.
 
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