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

Jeff Kinz jkinz at kinz.org
Fri Aug 6 19:25:01 EDT 2004


On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 04:12:30PM -0400, gboyce at badbelly.com wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> sftp works well, and should exist on any machine running a recent version 
> of openssh.

yup, sftp is preferable to plain ftp as well.  Another good choice, and
it may be easier to use depending on your background.
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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.



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