It was hard to tell from the first email exactly what the problem was.<div><br></div><div><div>Would your business model support using some hosted service? Google Apps offers SSO solutions via SAML (and SAML can authenticate from LDAP/Kerberos sources). If not, I've had good luck with Samba across links with a fast connection with a Samba server set as the Windows PDC and file shares served by a mix of Windows and Samba. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I can echo Mr. Kinney's stance on NFS. It's been a while since I've used it, but in a Windows 2008 environment with NFSv4 there were constant stale lock issues.</div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:05 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale-request@ale.org">ale-request@ale.org</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:32:48 -0400<br>
From: "Michael B. Trausch" <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [ale] File systems for hetergeneous networks?<br>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
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On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 15:23 -0400, Andrew Sledge wrote:<br>
> A VPN link didn't do it for you? If not, why wouldn't this work? What<br>
> have you tried?<br>
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A VPN link is what would be used in order to connect the two networks<br>
together.<br>
<br>
I'm looking for a way to essentially have single sign on and shared<br>
filesystems that can be accessed efficiently between two geographically<br>
diverse locations with a low-latency (but also low-bandwidth) connection<br>
between them.<br>
<br>
That is to say that there should be a way for both networks to use the<br>
same network filesystem, to agree on the owners and status of file<br>
locking mechanisms, and to be able to transmit changes as soon as they<br>
happen to the other side (or at least notify the other side that changes<br>
occurred).<br>
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--- Mike<br></blockquote></div>
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