This is a bit of an extreme position to take.After a bit more research and thought, It seems that NFS without Kerberos isn't secure, and I'm not implementing Kerberos - so I'm not implementing NFS. I was already part way to the hinted at and directly proposed solution: rsync-over-ssh for backup, and Read-Only SMB for media sharing. NFS would be more elegant, but without proper security its not acceptable to me for my private files.Thanks to everyone for the responses: it helped me figure out what I wanted to do.
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