-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ian Bruseker wrote: > 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? ;-)
Still Samba (specifically CIFS). Good throughput, user authentication that does not rely on unified UIDs. In short, without Windows on my LAN I would still use Samba to provide CIFS shares. >> 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. I don't usually have the lockup problem (there are a lot of options to NFS and the default ones are not what I would consider sane... but that is perhaps just me). Across temperamental links (VPN and WiFi are the two I use a lot) Samba provides better throughput and "feels" more responsive. Whenever something happens (packet loss, latency spikes, out of order packets etc.) the CIFS mounts just seem to recover better. >> 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. A matter of perspective. I have a very bad relationship with iTunes, (never used iPhoto), so obviously I could care less. Samba advertises the shares I want it to, which is browsable via smb4k. Of course I have explicit mounts for everything, even on the Windows box, so this is less of an issue.. >> 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. ;-) > My second computer was an Apple IIc, then Mac 512 that was upgraded several times (even replacing the MB so that I could have an external SCSI drive. The last Mac I owned was an iBook 500 Mhz which shipped with the first version of OS X. I diss the Mac (Apple in general) because I have used it extensively and it annoys me more than Windows, which is saying something. I want to like Apple but they make it so difficult. Especially when compared OSS world that I now inhabit. Of course YMMV with the Mac, but for now, they will have no place in any environment that I manage. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGgs4SwRXgH3rKGfMRAn5AAKCkgspkBpiMIdfwp7oE7UhTLqf8ewCfSu0M UUGy4boWnLr20bGQFJ9N8yQ= =/Av0 -----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
