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SMB/CFS/Samba are not meant to be used directly over the internet. eg. without a tunnel. The best alternative right now is Dropbox unless you are a developer.
by z3t4 7y ago
SMB/CFS/Samba are not meant to be used directly over the internet. eg. without a tunnel. The best alternative right now is Dropbox unless you are a developer.
- dredmorbius 7y agoNeither, really, is NFS. The point isn't whether or not these are protocols that are utilised on the naked Internet, but that they offer access to network services via filesystem semantics. That is, rather than use a specific client or API to access remote content, or copying it locally as a separate step, you simply open a file in an existing application, or, within a program, using fopen() or equivalent operators. The networking is ... translucently ... handled in the background by the filesystem interface and/or driver(s). The reasons SMB is not generally used or advised over the Internet are worth looking at, as this touches on many of the security / privacy concerns of any such service.