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The situation is basically this:

  • NFS works, it’s very fast, keeps the xattrs but if used without Kerberos it’s not secure. If used with Kerberos it works, but has a ticket that expires and forces me to reenter the credentials frequently in order to use it. If there was a way to use NFS with Kerberos and save the credentials NFS would be the perfect solution.

  • Samba works fine too, also keeps the xattrs but I had some troubles with filenames (mainly with some special characters, emoji, etc). Besides, as both my server and my clients run Linux I prefer to avoid it if I have the choice.

  • sshfs would be the natural choice, not as fast as NFS but it’s pretty secure, I already use it in most of my network shares but I just can’t find a way to make it preserve the files xattrs.

Do you guys have any suggestions or maybe any other options that I might use?

  • CCRhode
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    4 months ago

    Maybe copying/moving files using a file manager?

    <plugging package=“file_manager”>FileZilla</plugging>

    -or-

    <plugging package=“file_manager”>Gnome Commander</plugging>

    …but call me quaint. I still like…

    <plugging package=“file_manager”>mc</plugging>

    … 'cause it always just works. mc can ostensibly preserve attributes, time-stamps, and (with appropriate privilege on the receiving end) ownership of transferred files (using an sftp server supposedly).