Samba Shared Folders over a WAN link

[Alan Horn]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

>
> https would add additional Overhead though. It's not mentioned, does
> cavader actually mounts that as a shared drive/folder?

It's true that https would add the overhead of SSL. If you don't care 
about your data being intercepted and read by others, don't use https. I 
would classify that as 'A Bad Idea' however. The overhead of SSL is not 
significant with modern CPUs, and the bandwidth percentage is not that big 
a deal either. If you're in _exceptionally_ low bandwidth situations (e.g. 
mobile phone/9600/14400 baud territory) then you would need to assess that 
more closely.

Cadaver is a webdav client for unix command line. It functions similarly 
to a command line FTP client in look and feel. It doesn't mount the 
filesystem as a shared drive/folder.

However, you were talking about _windows_ earlier, no ? If you're mounting 
filesystems on a unix box there are far wider (and richer) choices 
available to you.

Cheers,

Al