[LUAU] Virtual directory points to another computer

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Thu Dec 30 17:20:41 PST 2004


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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:46:36 -0500 (EST), Andrew Maddox
<madsox at radix.net> wrote:
> 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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