Question

I’ve data on a mac server, on which I’ve several files.
I’ve to do a c# program which connect to the server and retrieve files which are different.

The server and the workstation will not be on the same network, so I need to have a secure access(the encryption is a plus, but it’s mostly about other people cannot go read files on the server).

I taught of several things:

• Rsync over SSH(but I didn’t found any good library on the .net server, which manage ssh and is recent enough)
• Samba(not secure enough?)/SFtp access(but I need to do myself the hash mecanism, check on dates, …)

What is my best option? Do you have an other (better) idea?

Answer 1

I would definitely use Samba/CIFS. Why is this not secure enough? It is used by Windows operating systems (the MS implementation of it) all over the wolds, in enterprise systems.
Why do you think it is not secure enough?