local development server and mapping drives

[Bill Cavalieri]

On Friday 29 April 2005 1:53 pm, Jack wrote:
> --- "D. Hageman" <dhageman at dracken.com> wrote:
> > You could easily use any of the following to achieve
> > your goal:
> >
> > NFS
> > Samba
> > OpenAFS
> >
> > Each has its pros and cons.
>
> That was kind of my point in asking.
> Although I really hadn't given NFS serious thought.
> Last I remember NFS was a rootkit waiting to happen.

While nfs not the solution you needed for your setup.  I have nfs in many 
locations, never had any security problems.  Its not the best remote 
filesystem (defaults to udp among other things), but certainly quieter than 
using smb/cifs on the network.

-Bill