What linux lacks most - a decent remote fs

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

Neal Becker wrote:
> I used unix/linux for many years.  In the past we've used nfs.  But nfsv3
> has no (useful) authentication.  Anyone can setup a rogue machine and
> pretend to be any uid/gid.
> 
> I understand that nfsv4 was supposed to fix that.  Looking at the docs I
> could find, it appears I'll never live long enough to understand how to set
> that up, and I haven't yet found the idiot's guide to setting up nfsv4 with
> authentication.
> 
> For now I'm using cifs.  That's pretty sad.
> 
> I've glanced at afs, but there's no Fedora package.


Mmm... I dream of an easy-to-use remote fs with automagical local caching...

- Mike