There is another alternative I use that doesn't require switching
filesystems. OpenVPN (
http://openvpn.net/). I can hook in from
anywhere (It needs a single port open in your firewall and supports
either UDP or TCP. This way you can keep from opening up ports to the
outside and and allow access only through the VPN interface. NFS runs
quite well for me over it as packets are just routed and it took me
about 10 minutes to set up a server, generate keys and set up a client,
never having done this before.
-Tim
He asked *is* there an alternative, so I listed an alternative.
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