Re: Mac and Linux

["Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS" <user=91@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:40:39AM -0500, Ben Holland wrote: 
> If hes home then security doesn't really matter unless you are going over 
> wireless in which case you should be connecting via an encryption and that 
> has nothing to do with the file sharing. 

He wants to connect to a GNU box in a remote location from home. 

You want to do this with NFS without FreeSwan? 

Ruben 
> Also installing linux on a mac when 
> you want the benefit of the mac doesn't make sense. For internal home 
> networks NFS is just fine, if you are going external the problem is a bit 
> bigger, we just had a discussion on what to do about that. I've had a fun 
> time trying to do streaming media from one computer to the other (have one 
> dvd mounted on linux and trying to play it on my mac) and for stuff like 
> that NFS doesn't work well, but to be fair, it's breaking the use for nfs. 
> If anything for huge slow files, copy em to your mac desk top, edit or do 
> whatever, and put em back on the linux comp. ~Ben 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Ruben Safir <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:30:14AM -0500, Ben Holland wrote: 
> > > I like nfs for that if it's on the same network. It's inc readably easy 
> > to 
> > > set up an nfs on Linux and pick it up on mac. 
> > 
> > 
> > its not that secure if he's home. 
> > 
> > The easiest thing is to put GNU/Linux on the mac and use 
> > version control the sftp ssh or ssh over rsync 
> > 
> > Ruben 
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Tom Haskins-Vaughan < 
> > > [hidden email]> wrote: 
> > > 
> > > > Hi, 
> > > > 
> > > > My current set up is a F7 server and an Ubuntu 7.10 client using 
> > > > NFS/NIS. I'm looking into getting a Mac for web development. What's 
> > the 
> > > > best way to integrate a Mac client with a Linux server? I'd like to 
> > have 
> > > > seamless access to my home directory from my server. 
> > > > 
> > > > TIA 
> > > > 
> > > > Tom 
> > > > 
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