On Friday 03 June 2011 13:37:54 Stéphane Guedon wrote:
> On Friday 03 June 2011 12:55:58 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 12:44 on Friday 03 June 2011, Stéphane
> > Guedon
> > 
> > did opine thusly:
> > > anyone use autofs to manage mounting of nfs on a laptop ?
> > 
> > Is this mounting a share from an nfs server onto a laptop?
> > 
> > > Is it fluent,
> > > easy to use ?
> > 
> > It's NFS. The words "nfs" and "fluent, easy to use" do not belong in the
> > same sentence unless there's a "not" in the middle.
> > 
> > The point is that NFS was not designed with laptops and other devices
> > that can be disconnected in mind. It was designed for secure LANs that
> > do not change much, and laptops present issues that are not easy to
> > solve.
> > 
> > > How many shares maximum ?
> > 
> > From a server? Hundreds, with ease. NFS is not the bottleneck, your
> > shares are limited by how much bandwidth you have over the network.
> 
> Ok, it's a beginning.. :-) thank you !
> 
> Nfs hasn't been designed for laptop, it's ok. But, appart from coda (which
> has a file size limit of 1 giga, so, useless in home networking), I know
> nothing that is fit for network file-sharing for laptop (the laptop isn't
> the server of course).
> 
> I search a solution for that since years !

samba?

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