NFS Over Internet (was: ... Beowulf (cluster) installations?

[jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz)]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:40:50PM -0400, Jules Gilbert wrote:
> I have an IP address which maps to one machine.  Also a login ID and
> password.
> 
> No X session's.  Everything I want to do is done with C program's running
> batch jobs.
> 
> I'd like my main computer to 'see' their file system.  Right now I am using
> C routines which invoke FTPCOPY and FTPQ; two utilities for getting and
> putting files.
> 
> Mounting their computer system using NFS would be great.

Looks like you want a VPN:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/VPN-HOWTO.html
(This only works with Linux versions from 1991 and later.. :)

I reccomend using ssh and scp instead of ftp based utilities.

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