[plug] Distributed files systems (AFS)

[Ryan]

Not much comment from me - just alternatives:

Considered WebDAV?  Many clients support this natively, Apache and IIS
can serve it.

You could then pay a small fee and get a product called WebDrive for the
Windows client which will mount a WebDAV server as a drive letter, so
it's seamless to the user.  Will provide full file locking and doesn't
require any major changes to what you already have.  WebDrive will also
natively SSH tunnel the connection if you wish for better security.

If file locking is not needed, then you can also use WebDrive via FTP.  

SMB over any link is a pain.

Novell iFolder is another option too .. if you want to rip everything
out and put in a Novell infrastructure - like we just did here (all
running on Linux) :)

Regards,

Ryan

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:38 +0800, Rennie wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm fishing around for info regarding distributed/network files systems.
> 
> I've briefly looked at AFS and it seems to be very capable and the
> sort of thing we're after, but I concerned it is beyond our company's
> knowledge/resources - 4 not-particularly-network-savvy  geeks, 1.5 of
> them with a small amount Linux know-how.
> 
> Our basic problem is the boss - the least network savvy of us all -
> would like to have access to the files on our server from his home.
> 
> At the office there is a Debian gateway (DHCP & NAT), behind it is an
> XP SMB file server and half a dozen XP clients. At the bosses home
> something similar but instead of the Debian gateway some sort of ADSL
> modem/switch/DHCP/NATish thing - we'll assume messy.
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