truecrypt. Mount image over network

Question

Encryption

There are 2 cars.

1 - server under Linux. It wants to store the container file itself.
2 - the client machine under Windows is NOT in the local network with the server, access to the server via the Internet. You need to mount the container file on it.
Do I understand correctly that on the first machine you need to raise samba, connect the disk with the container to the Windows machine as a network drive and mount the image in truecrypt?

Or is there some more rational method? Sharing a network drive mounted on a server is not an option. LUKS too. Wouldn't truecrypt then try to cache the entire container file?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Ability to map as disk via sftp/ssh
www.webdrive.com/products/webdrive/index.html

Answer 2

IMHO, the option you described with samba is the easiest way out. TrueCrypt won't read the entire file, of course, and samba is smart enough to use bandwidth sparingly when accessing a file.

Answer 3

You can give a block device via iscsi, but a stable Internet is important here.

Answer 4

Or samba, or a simple PHP/Python script with authorization and file management via HTTP.

Answer 5

I vote for Dell. I always took it - they work stupidly and do not break (in my experience).

Answer 6

I vote for Lenovo ThinkPad T or W series :) At the T500 itself, I am completely satisfied with it. Although of course it would be necessary to voice the requirements for a laptop, I took myself for programming.

Answer 7

The most similar laptop - Sany Vaio VPCEB4S1R - is one of the shortcomings noticed: a not very capacious battery, sometimes the speakers "wheeze", and of course the weight, although I'm already used to it. Wife took a light Acer on AMD A4.

Answer 8

A laptop is usually chosen not only by price, but also by scope. It's hard to recommend something without knowing what it's for.
My job involves working with CAD systems, mostly 2D. The requirements for the laptop were as follows:
1) mechanical resistance - you have to use it not only in a warm office, but also on objects,
2) a screen no larger than 14 ", but at the same time with the highest possible resolution for this size,
3) sufficient performance and size of the operational According to the sum of
the criteria and based on the budget, I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad t410 with IPS matrices 1440x900.

Answer 9

I had a Dell XPC at my old job, it broke for no apparent reason.
At the current work, Sony broke down - the motor in the cooler burned out.
I would choose Sony or Lenovo in general

Answer 10

Dell will be more powerful.
The GT540 is stronger than the 6630M, especially since AMD's video card is capable of rendering graphics at a higher resolution, which will lead to fps drops in games.
i7 will pull out both in the tail and in the mane of i5, so for everyday work on power, take Dell. But if you work with a large number of windows, then take Sony because of FullHD. But, I repeat, there is FullHD only for office tasks and a movie in the evening. Any shooter like Metro 2033, Crysis 1/2 will drop fps to slideshow even on medium or even low settings, especially on x64, where game performance is lower.

Answer 11

XPS, in general, not bad laptops, but they have a couple of problems. Being "multimedia", i.e. with a pretty good stuffing, but "homemade", i.e. the manufacturer did not bother much with engineering, they often make a lot of noise and also heat up. If this is not critical for you, take the XPS.
I heard that the 570 series of Ideapads turned out very well - you can take a closer look at the Y570

Answer 12

What tasks are you going to use the laptop for? Advice depends on this :)