On 6/27/07, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 :) > Ah, but what if you didn't have to support a legacy OS? ;-)
> 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. > I have to agree on NFS. Too many times I've tried it, only to have it lock up so badly I had to reboot. I tried it again the other day between two systems only to find my UIDs weren't matching and just sighed and did something else. > 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). > Well, it is cool in that it broadcasts more than just file and print sharing. Like I said, it advertises that my Gentoo box offers SSH as well as the AFP share, and you can have it advertise other things like web servers, plus the obvious Apple-y things like iTunes and iPhoto sharing. Is iTunes sharing a critical infrastructure issue? Um, no, not really. But still cool. > There are lots of ways of solving this, though you do limit your options > by using Mac OS :) I had wanted a Mac since grade 3 and my first time using an Apple II and LOGO. I finally got my first Mac of my own when my wife bought me my PowerBook for my 31st birthday. Don't diss the Mac. ;-) 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
