We used SMB locally: the server was on macos, the clients on macos, windows and linux. The problem with file permissions on macos had solution in the windows registry, but windows had a mind of its own and kept changing itself. A robust solution was to move the server to linux and enforce file permissions in samba. OpenBSD does not speak SMB fluently. We deprecated the protocol and sealed its ports for security reasons.
We still use NFS: the servers are on OpenBSD, the clients are on Windows 10 Pro, MacOS and GNU/Linux. Every box talks NFS. The protocol and the implementations are not bullet-proof. OpenBSD's NFS suffered from DoS a few years ago, and we have a problem right now that smells DoS to us. We need something that does not require resetting servers in the middle of the night. We also need something that works on WAN. We have iSCSI in the pipeline. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 00:03, Martin Hanson <[email protected]> wrote: > How do you share files between OpenBSD, Linux, and Windows boxes? Currently I > have a setup in which I mount Samba shares that are being served from Linux > boxes and mounted on Linux boxes using cifs and on Windows boxes. This works > very well and it's both easy to administer and it's very fast. I would like > to use OpenBSD for more that just firewalling and I would like to replace > several Linux desktops with OpenBSD. However, every time I try to set this up > I run into some kind of trouble. NFS isn't a solution as file permissions is > a mess between several different OS'es with different accounts. Samba works > really great between Linux and Windows, but mounting Samba shares on OpenBSD? > I remember sharity-light, but it isn't in the ports any longer and isn't > maintained. How do you manage file sharing between these systems (if it all)? > Also, is it possible to decrypt and mount a Linux harddrive that has been > encrypted with LUKS? Many thanks in advance! Kind regards
