[plug] Distributed files systems (AFS)

[Onno Benschop]

Rennie wrote:

>I'm fishing around for info regarding distributed/network files systems.
>  
>
You can use putty to make an ssh tunnel to your network from his. You 
could likely port redirect his SMB traffic across that tunnel. The setup 
would be a single configuration file, that can be emailed, that sets up 
putty to do this. Of course it won't deal with issues like his machine 
being infected and hosing your network, but you could force his web and 
mail traffic through the same tunnel at the same time.

I've never done exactly this, but I've used putty to do all manner of 
weird and wonderful things over the years. There is a user manual 
floating on the web by one of our PLUGgers, Leon, at: 
http://cyberknights.com.au/doc/PuTTY-tunnelling-HOWTO.html, which will 
help you in this.

Of course you could install all manner of applications and use those, 
but I like to keep things simple :)


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