Can you explain NFS a little more?  I installed LAMP
(Linux-Apache-Mysql-PHP) on our samba server for testing and made the
htdocs directory where the web files sit a samba share, so I can mount
that share on my workstation, and it's like a local directory for
writing PHP/HTML files.  

If you can do this with NFS (and not need samba) that would really
rock.  Does NFS encrypt data as it travels (NFS-SSH?)? 

-Rob

> On 20010222.1616, Bob Miller said ...
>
> Rob Hudson wrote:
> 
> > I'm curious what kind of programs for Linux there are to see samba
> > servers and get at the drives.  I have an account on the box so I can
> > just ssh/scp from it, but it would be nicer to be able use it in a
> > more easy way (can I mount it?).
> 
> If you expect serious amounts of traffic to the server from Unix
> clients, you might want to export it as an NFS volume.  NFS has more
> Unixy filesystem semantics than SMB, and might perform better. (I
> believe it will, but don't have any benchmarks to back up my belief.)
> 
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