> I would like to ask people what they think is the best solution for > networking a windows/linux network. > > Keeping in mind that the ultimate goal is to develop a linux only > network (but that that will not be accomplished anytime soon), I see 2 > options. > > 1. Install samba client on all linux user computers and have them > interact with the Windows network as if a Windows OS. > > 2. Install samba server on a single linux server. Map those Windows > drives that need to be shared out to Linux users to the linux server and > then remap them to each linux user. Actually, I don't even know if that > is possible. > > Although the first option might be the easiest, keeping in mind that > eventually there would be no windows computers, it would seem more > sensible to maintain and support just NFS among the Linux users.
Why not do both and migrate over to NFS when you get rid of the Windows boxen?
