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Hello everyone, I've been thinking about this for a bit and am looking for opinions/alternatives.

Essentially, I'd like to encrypt my shares (NFS/Samba) on my local network. I'm awake that Kerberos is a good option with NFS, but I was hoping for something simpler. The other idea I have right now is to use stunnel with NFSv3/Samba to encrypt my traffic but I don't know if this is a good idea.

How are you doing it? What do you suggest?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is sshfs an option? Unfortunately, I don't think you can put that into /etc/fstab, though...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. Though it does seem to to require your private key to be unencrypted...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well passwordless. But you can put it on an encrypted partition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Well passwordless.

Same thing in this context. But sure, an encrypted partition would work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Would this be an ideal solution to share media from the NAS to the media server?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Dunno about ideal, but it should work.

It does have quite a bit of overhead, meaning it's not the fastest out there, but as long as it's fast enough to serve the media you need, that shouldn't matter.

Also, you need to either mount it manually on the command line whenever you need it or be comfortable with leaving your SSH private key in your media server unencrypted. Since you are already concerned with needing to encrypt file share access even in the local network, the latter might not be a good option to you.

The good part about it is, as long as you can ssh from your media server to your NAS, this should just work with no additional setup needed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks, I'll think more on this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

NFS over WireGuard is probably going to be the best when it comes to encrypted file shares without the need to set up Kerberos. Just set up the WireGuard tunnel and export over those ips.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I never thought of using nfs over wireguard. Very nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That's how my GPU instances for reencoding connect to my self deployed seed box instances. Works just fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is a pretty good idea. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No problem. It should be wayyy faster than sshfs for the record. Both NFS and WireGuard are best in class tools.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That is wonderful to know

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe you can experiment Croc if you want simplest way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would like this for my media server, basically like a drop-in replacement for NFS shares. I still need it to be some sort of share instead of having to prompt it to send media across. Great project though, thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

my pleasure..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'd like this to be used as a share between my NAS and media server.