-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ian Bruseker wrote: > 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?
Well, no offence, but this is a silly question. Samba _has_ been invented. You could say linux brought us FUSE which has a whole lot of cool things, not the least of which is sshfs. None of this exists in a vacuum so the question is at best moot. Samba is much more than "the Windows way". It is a legitimate project in and of itself. The fact that it supports a legacy OS is a bonus :) >> NFS is another way. HTTP is another. FTP too. SSH (a la fish) is >> another. Etc. I have never been a fan of NFS, I guess I never could figure out how to tune it properly. It always seemed to have issues when used over WiFI or VPN links. Samba (used to refer both the SMB and CIFS protocols) in my experience has performed better across a wider variety of network topologies, never mind the edge it has in cross platform access. >> 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 > Rendezvous is essentially zeroconf. I have not used either, but then I read the TCP/IP guide for fun, I cannot be trusted to make an unbiased judgement of Rendezvous (a solution in search of a problem IMO). > 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. There are lots of ways of solving this, though you do limit your options by using Mac OS :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGgg/MwRXgH3rKGfMRAtTgAJ9M5fWn/Ar1EofOGmTJc/wzb+RbmgCfU5um iQaTRdiYYM1MUe70h7lgbZw= =lfJi -----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
