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> you'll have an authentication server which does only authentication > you'll have a file server which ONLY serves files These sound like disadvantages. Dec
by jcoffland 9y ago
> you'll have an authentication server which does only authentication
> you'll have a file server which ONLY serves files
These sound like disadvantages. Decentralization would be better. I'd like to share the storage of all my servers and not have one auth server as a single point of failure. I imagine you can setup up a redundant auth server at the cost of more hardware but why not decentralize? This seems a lot like the old way of doing things.
- ithkuil 9y agoHaving a file server that only stores files does not mean having only one file server.
- SolarNet 9y agoAnd indeed one of them may be local to the computer serving local drives, and another could be the network resources. Heck it could even allow file servers with different security settings (e.g. the USB drives might be mounted in a hostile file server space).
- noblethrasher 9y agoA server is just a name; you can't infer the number of machines (physical or virtual) that are behind a name.