At Gioorgi.com we evaluted a internet file system common gateway for connecting network resources. We compared two solutions: a webdav file system and an ssh-fs file system. The solution should be viable via MacOSX and Linux, but also Windows support will be a plus.

WebDAV

Samba and NFS are for sure more fast and reliable, but webdav offers some nice feature:

  • Webdav is easy to set up on apache web server
  • Webdav uses simple http protocol extension, so you can use it also behind web proxy
  • You can use HTTPS protocol to get SSL encryption
  • Apple uses it for its iDisk solution, so you get the More >