[solid_fuel]

I tried to set up network file sharing with NFS the other day and it was like pulling teeth. You need Kerberos if you want to map user names instead of user ids and still have some security.

Ultimately I gave up and used samba instead, but it does seem like there's a big gap in linux offerings for "home/small business network file sharing" with shared auth

[mr_mitm]

sshfs doesn't work for you?

[solid_fuel]

It's for a drive holding primarily media files, my experiences with sshfs have been that it is slow. My goal here was to have a network drive mounted on login for two different accounts on my linux desktop, and the same users (my partner and I) on different accounts (because apple) on two different macbooks. It's a typical home network, with a firewall, so the extra security of ssh would be nice but isn't really critical for us - any malware on the computers we use would already have network access and our ssh keys.

I also want to share the home printer/scanner, which I believe samba can do, but obviously sshfs won't. Side note - I would love to see a standard protocol and server for a 3d printer. We have a Bambu and the software is... alright... but doesn't play nice sharing an account between computers.

Ultimately I set up samba on the server, with mapped users, and a line in fstab on the desktop. Plain old NFS might have worked for the desktop but the users don't have the same UIDs between the desktop and the server and... reconciling that seemed painful.

I did try to make kerberos work with NFS for a few days but the experience was akin to staring into the sun.

[jcgl]

It's a great option to have, but ultimately it's at-best pretty slow.