[TriLUG] Network FS

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 01:40, Nathan Conrad wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for some type of file server that I can server from my
> house, and mount on a computer at my school (ECHHS). The deal is that
> there is a IP masquerading firewall at the school, and I believe that
> these are unfriendly to UDP packets. AFS and NFS, the two filesystems
> that I use, seem to require UDP.
> 
> Should I not be worried about UDP not working (I have not tried either
> NFS nor AFS on the machine at school)? What options do I have for a TCP
> server?
> 
> -Nathan

I would probably look into setting up a virtual private network.
This would allow you to pass udp packets and use something like
AFS.  I would recommend against NFS because it's known to
not work very well over long distance links.

Tanner