On Tuesday 26 June 2007 18:37, Kevin Anderson wrote: > Well, Lets clear a few things... > > Samba isn't the "windows way", it's the SMB way. That can be done on > Linux, Mac and/or Windows. > Ditto for Rendezvous. > > NFS is another way. > HTTP is another. > FTP too. > SSH (a la fish) is another. > Etc. > > There are lots of tools. You don't want SMB or NFS, I'd say that each > has advantages depending on what you're doing and on how you're > connecting, and what you're doing over that connection. > > SSH is slow but secure. > SMB is slow and insecure, but shares nicely with everyone since MS has > popularized it. > HTTP is annoying, but works well once working. > FTP just sucks. (PEBKAC on my part here more than likely)
Nope...it's horrible. > NFS is great, but if the connection is unreliable, then it's breaks > worse than most alternatives. (That's fixable tho) > I'm using cifs on my LAN at the moment. It seems to get the job done pretty well. I think in a total Linux environment I'd likely opt for SSH. > Etc. > > Kev. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Bruseker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:51 PM > To: CLUG General > Subject: [clug-talk] Browsing a Linux network > > Random discussion topic. How do you browse a network in Linux? By that > I mean something analogous to a Windows domain. I'm wondering about the > whole package: browsing to find the shared resource, authenticating, and > transferring. I got to thinking about this last week when I got tired > of always using "Connect to computer" on my PowerBook to mount the AFP > share on my Gentoo box. So I installed Avahi (a Rendezvous "server", I > guess you'd call it), and now my SSH and AFP services are broadcast on > my network so I can access them by name and the Gentoo box just > magically appears in the Networks folder on the Mac. Nifty. Then last > night I was messing around with Ubuntu > 7.04 in a VM, and found that it had magically picked up the SSH shares > on both the Gentoo and Mac machines (again using Avahi, I believe). > When I clicked on one, I could log in and it mounted the remote > filesystem using SFTP. Nifty again, but it got me to thinking. > Rendezvous is the Apple way, and Samba is the Microsoft way, but what is > the Linux way? Put another way, before anyone invented Rendezvous and > Samba, how did people browse a Linux only (or Unix only, if we have to > go back that far) network? Where does the single sign-on come from, if > that's possible, à la Windows domain, where I wouldn't be asked for a > username/password to mount the remote filesystem? And what protocol is > used? NFS? *cringe* I've never gotten along with NFS. > > Like I said, random discussion topic, just creating conversation. > How's everyone's Tuesday? :-) > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
