[ale] File systems for hetergeneous networks?

[Andrew Sledge]

It was hard to tell from the first email exactly what the problem was.

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.

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.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:05 PM, <ale-request at ale.org> wrote:
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:32:48 -0400
> From: "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us>
> Subject: Re: [ale] File systems for hetergeneous networks?
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Message-ID: <1308771168.3008.13.camel at redpepper>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
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> On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 15:23 -0400, Andrew Sledge wrote:
> > A VPN link didn't do it for you? If not, why wouldn't this work? What
> > have you tried?
>
> A VPN link is what would be used in order to connect the two networks
> together.
>
> I'm looking for a way to essentially have single sign on and shared
> filesystems that can be accessed efficiently between two geographically
> diverse locations with a low-latency (but also low-bandwidth) connection
> between them.
>
> That is to say that there should be a way for both networks to use the
> same network filesystem, to agree on the owners and status of file
> locking mechanisms, and to be able to transmit changes as soon as they
> happen to the other side (or at least notify the other side that changes
> occurred).
>
>        --- Mike
>
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