exporting/exposing directory over the Internet?

[Peter Membrey]

Hi Joachim,

If I were setting something like this up, I would make sure that it
was done over a VPN. OpenVPN is a pretty neat solution that works
easily on all of the platforms you'll be using. It's very straight
forward to set up and will give you a secure network that you can run
whatever file sharing solution you want.

If you ensure that you are only offering the resource via the VPN, you
can be sure (OpenVPN supports certificate and password based
authentication) that only trust people will be able to see the
service, much less access it.

I have noticed that there isn't a section on OpenVPN in the handbook -
I guess I should contribute one :)

Cheers,

Pete

2008/10/4 Joachim Rosenfeld <joerosenfeld at gmail.com>:
> I wish to store some files on my FreeBSD 7 server that will be used by
> various clients (FreeBSD, Windows, and Linux). What is a good way to
> export a directory so that it can be mounted on various systems and
> seen as a local directory?
>
> NFS is out, for security reasons.
>
> I was thinking of Samba, but I'm not sure of the security implications
> of using it over the public Internet.
>
> Somebody mentioned WebDAV, but I'm not familiar with it at all and I'm
> not sure if it can do what I need it to do.
>
> Any recommendations?
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