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asmanian

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Kerberos & NFSv4

Has anyone running Kerberos & nfsv4?
Apparently nfs4-common doesn't compile and is near mainternless atm.
But I wonder if no arch user uses NFS4 with kerberos support or if there is another way?

attila

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Registered: 2006-11-14

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Re: Kerberos & NFSv4

See this for informations about it:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8486
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13625

Me personaly give it up to experiment with nfs4 and use cifs instead, sorry.

asmanian

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: Kerberos & NFSv4

Hm sad to hear this. But the bugreport sounds as if it was just a matter of time, question is how long that time is going to be...
Under debian nfs4+kerberos already works fine for me, I hate to still need to use sshfs.

But also I must confess I didn't know that cifs indeed has encryption support, which I am happy to hear because I also searched for a secure way to communicate with windows (I dumbly believed maybe due to prejudice that standard M$ has no encryption at all).

attila

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Re: Kerberos & NFSv4

Hm sad to hear this. But the bugreport sounds as if it was just a matter of time, question is how long that time is going to be...

At the top of the comments from the second link you can see that the author of the bugreport switch to gentoo so i don't think that it will be realized in the next time.

But also I must confess I didn't know that cifs indeed has encryption support, which I am happy to hear because I also searched for a secure way to communicate with windows (I dumbly believed maybe due to prejudice that standard M$ has no encryption at all).

Oh, that is new for me too. I must say i use cifs because for me it runs more stable than nfs and has less problems with broken connections after a crash. So i can live with it that the performance is not so good as with nfs. But thanks for pointing out the encryption support of cifs.

asmanian

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: Kerberos & NFSv4

Yeah I made shattering experiences with nfs3 too, but nfs4 is a *lot* different under the hood I read.
Its really a PITA that arch currently doesn't support it

attila

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Re: Kerberos & NFSv4

Yeah I made shattering experiences with nfs3 too, but nfs4 is a *lot* different under the hood I read.

I will give it a second try if i update my server. At the moment the kernel is too old and therefore nfs4 is more unstable as cifs for me at home. I saved the tarball from the aur package for experiments and if i will have success i will report here. I can't understand too why no one is interested for supporting nfs4 in archlinux out of the box.

attila

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Re: Kerberos & NFSv4

Only for the stats i try to compile nfs4-utils and the build breaks with errors from include files of heimdal. Because i'm not a developer i give up and stay with using cifs.