Share folder over internet

[Laszlo Nagy]

> I often suggest Coda (ports/net/coda6_server & coda6_client) for this
> sort of situation, but it has been so many years since I've used it
> myself that I don't know what state it is in these days. I hope the
> documentation has improved. Note the client runs on the local file
> server, so you don't need to change anything on end-users'
> workstations.
>   
If it really has client side caching then it can be better than NFS. 
However, I just found this on their official website:

<snip>
There were several sweeping changes in freebsd, and in the case where 
the developers didn't exactly know how to solve it for Coda, they just 
removed the related code. For instance, they don't support vget with a 
device/inode number pair anymore, so they simply removed the complete 
coda_open codepath. As a result it is impossible to open any files or 
directories in /coda with the current fbsd kernel module.
</snip>

Now I'm starting to loose my enthusiasm about FreeBSD!

- sshfs works for Linux, but not for FreeBSD, although ssh is open 
source and well documented. The guy who developed it says that he could 
not implement fuse very well because the source code of the FreeBSD 
kernel is a mess, can this be true?
- WEB-DAV fs works for Linux but not for FreeBSD, although DAV is well 
documented. Why?
- Coda client does not work correctly because of... lack of kernel 
developers?

Most suprisingly, Gnome 2.18 and nautilus CAN use WEB-DAV (both http and 
https), and it can also "mount" sshfs. But this is useless for me 
because I cannot really mount them, they are available in gnome vfs 
only. I see signs... is it really the kernel that prevents me from doing 
what I need to do?

Today I also had trouble with mozilla flashplugin. It simply does not 
work, except with linux-firefox, but then Java stops working. 
Unfortuntely, I need to use both of them together. Skype does not work 
very well with FreeBSD, only in linux compat mode etc.

I like the idea of having only one, consistent distribution, and having 
a ports tree and I see other advantages of FreeBSD but I'm starting to 
think that using it as an application server was a bad idea from my 
part, simply because the lack of working - otherwise widely used - 
applications.

Sally... I'm sorry, it is late night here and I failed to solve 5 
problems today. All of them could have been solved with one click on 
Linux or even M$ Windows. :-(

   Laszlo