[LUAU] Virtual directory points to another computer

[Andrew Maddox]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Matt Darnell wrote:

>> > Does anyone know how to have a 'symlink' that will point to a
>> > directory on another computer?
>>
>> ummm, yeah, what I said before,
>> AFTER you NFS mount the remote computer's directory.
>
>Angela,
>
>Thanks for this.  Would the link from the FTP server to the host
>'file' server be encrypted?

Not with your standard, garden-variety NFS, no. If you implement Kerberos,
you can set up secure NFS, and there are one or two other secure NFS
implementations floating around out there, but I've never had occasion to
use any of them, so I can't give much advice other than "google 'em",
sorry. IIRC, they're pretty vendor-specific (i.e., Sun has a version, IBM
has one for AIX, etc.)

I have a feeling that AFS, being kerberos-aware, can support encryption,
but I'm not sure. There's an open-source version of that that's alive and
active, so I'd check it out.

Hope this helps,
ND

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