On 27/04/2020 06.01, Jason White via luv-main wrote:
I'm interested in accessing files on a Mac OS machine over the network from a Linux host.
They're both my laptops, and currently on the same network, but this is not always the case (i.e., doing this over the Internet may be desirable at some point).
I read a while ago that Apple was moving to SMB for file system access. Is this what I should be looking at? Are secure authentication and encryption supported? Or should I be considering sshfs or NFSv4, or something else? There's no LDAP infrastructure in my home environment.
I used to this at work where my Linux desktop would mount a secondary Mac computer. I initially used sshfs which worked quite well. At some point I ended up changing to SMB/CIFS which provided a very slight but noticeable performance increase. Apple used to use Samba but wrote their own SMB/CIFS server and client after Samba moved to the GPL V3. I think the replacement is called smbx but from what I recall mounting it was almost identical to mounting a Samba server. I didn't pay much attention to authentication and encryption as I was only ever connecting from inside trusted networks. NFS is an option on Macs but I never tried it. Cheers Geoff
With thanks and regards,
Jason.
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