AFAIK, NFS is the traditional *nix way t share files, and mount remote devices.
Love it or hate it, there's you answer. The "linux" way is NFS. Having said that, it's generally not the right solution anymore. More likely you'll want smb/cifs or something else that's more widely used. There's a reason they're widely used. You can believe that it's because they're better than NFS (and you'd be partly right), but as far as the linux way? That's like arguing vi/emacs. The answer is vim. Pick one, and learn it well. I'd recommend SMB (as Nick mentioned, it's replaced with CIFS now). I'd recommend it bacause it's the one you'll see most. After that, I'd use NFS. Partly because it does work well, but again, partly because you'll see it used very often. Lastly, I'd recommend SSH. It's dog slow, so you'll end up going back to one of the other two. FTP sucks, and HTTP is a lousy way to share files, slow, insecure, complicated setup, etc. Kev. -----Original Message----- From: Ian Bruseker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:13 PM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Browsing a Linux network On 6/26/07, Kevin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > Well, yes, they can "all be done" from all these platforms, but I'm not asking what can be done because someone has invented a way to get it done. I'm asking, if SMB primarily comes to the world via Windows, because that's where it was popularized, and Rendezvous was popularized by OS X, what has Linux given us? That's what I mean by "the Linux way". If Samba hadn't been invented, and Avahi hadn't been invented, what would a Linux user use (or a Linux sysadmin set up) to browse resources on their network and connect to them? > 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. > Well, it's not that I don't "want" SMB (though I'll admin to not wanting NFS). :-) I already have my solution, which is Rendezvous and AFP, and dealing with have to type in my password, though I could also click that "Save my password in Keychain" box and fix that too. I'm talking in hypotheticals here. How else to solve this other than my way. Like I said, it's just a discussion. I'm not looking for a solution, I'm just talking it out. 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
