-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Even linux to linux cifs is my choice.
Nick Wiltshire wrote: > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGgeSuwRXgH3rKGfMRAlcoAJ4rFhE/ep/Ed3exLrJtzc1DONlYQQCePV7G QAiAnUWWzIRd1Ct67pjpGfE= =jJUZ -----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
