Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication fromheterogenous systems

[Jakob Praher <jp@hapra.at>]

Hi,


Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> schrieb:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Jakob Praher <jp@hapra.at> wrote:
>>>
> If you are on Linux you can use v9fs directly.
> For servers there are lots of choices, but spfs/npfs are the only ones
> (I know of) which support the UNIX extensions (for things like UID
> mapping, etc.)
> There is a comprehensive list: http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations
>
I am currently on MacOS X and Linux. I thought that npfs is a successor of
v9fs? I have now also installed u9fs which is part of the Plan 9 iso. This
seams to be a complete Unix file system exporting solution for accesing
remote file systems from Plan 9. My question is if I use the Plan9 in user
space port on the client side it would be theoretically possible to use
the u9fs from non native Plan9 machines too?. What are the main problems I
am running into if I do it this way?


>
> This all depends on what you are trying to do, are you going
> Linux<->Linux, Linux<->Plan9, something else?  Authentication isn't
> currently supported by any of the UNIX servers (to my knowledge).  It
> is possible to setup an authenticated connection from UNIX to Plan 9
> using p9p.

As I said above if I have a native Linux file server and a Linux/Unix
client that is able to make use of the plan9port distribution, does that
enable  authenticated connections for me?

thanks
Jakob

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