Hi,

Is there such a thing as secure NFS? I.e something that uses SSH or similar encryption.

We have at present software which extracts files stored on a Red Hat box and imports the data into the program. The software at present uses a windows drive share which is mapped to the linux box using nfs, say "M" drive, so the software will pick up the file from the M drive and import it into the program which is being run on windows. We want to use a more secure way to do this as we will be moving the Linux server outside the company network. We dont want to have to change all the import programs so if we can have a secure way of having a mapped drive in windows which can then be used to access and transfer files from the Linux box securely that would be great.

I have had a look at an snfs program (see google - snfs) but this seems to only be for linux to linux connection, not windows to linux.

Any help, suggestions would be great.

There is a FUSE filesystem called SSHFS. There's also SCP, which uses SSH to remotely copy single files. Or you can use rsync over SSH to perform the copy.

Oops, I somehow completely missed the point of it being Linux->Windows. I'm not aware of anything readily available that does this, though you can run rsync over ssh from a cygwin environment on windows.

If you properly configure your NFS server to use dedicated ports you can ssh forward all of these ports across the Internet for a more secure connection.

Regards,

Alunduil