-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mitchell Brown wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering, what is (if any) the equivalent of smb4k for FTP and > NFS mounts? > I want to connect my server to my workstation under /home/mbrown/srv and > then > tell Picasa and Amarok to scan that folder (as I store all my music and > stuff on the > server). Sure, I could use Samba, but I find it. Well. Windows-ish. > Slow. Insecure. > Lack of configurability (is that a word?). > > Thanks.
Actually I use samba for exactly this purpose, mostly because it is *more* secure and reliable than NFS. Also NFS has issues over a wireless network whereas samba (CIFS) just flies. NFS can be made to run over TCP, which helps improve performance over a wireless link, but in my tests it has a higher CPU load and lower actual throughput than samba. There is a more secure derivative of NFS called sfs, but I found samba easier to configure and deploy. Also, the convenience of having the odd Windows box mount shares is nice too (I use Linux almost everywhere I have a choice, except on one machine). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEeohlwRXgH3rKGfMRAiztAJ0QeDwCYidz1a+wIa5qhhp1RCRy1QCfUkV0 R+AZ3/WHk0PGJrd3LMMcVPI= =xO6V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
