RH Enterprise 5 and Fedora 11 File Sharing

[KrGAce]

Hello all,

I have two machines on the same network. I want to share files from my Red Hat server to my Fedora 11 box. I want to know what is the easiest, most secure way of doing so. My machines are on a public wire (not an issue really as I don't have sensitive stuff on there), however I'd like to learn how to secure the server, but yet still get access from my Fedora box. Anyone provide me with a guide or help on which protocol (SSH, Samba? NFS) to use?


Many thanks in advance for anyone's help. Looking to ditch this Windows box and this will help in that process.



AceMan

[William Haller]

The answer will most likely depend on how you want to access them. The most secure would probably be running SFTP or SSH alone, but that isn't as transparent. NFS and Samba would let you mount it like a local partition, but would be less secure (although a strong firewall would probably mitigate that). If your F11 box is going to be mobile, I'd stick with SSH configured to only permit authorized keys (as opposed to a name and password combination).

[KrGAce]

no, not mobile. Will be on the same wire. I think I would like to mount the files as a local partition or drive only because in the past I have had problems trying to open something, and then accessing the server. Basically I want to open OpenOffice, or VLC, and say File open then access those files from the server.

Is there a guide or?

Many thanks again.

[olson]

Its possible to tunnel NFS or CIFS/Samba through an SSH connection. There are plenty of guides for both out there if you do some searches. Cheers!