On Wednesday 14 November 2001 07:47, Ben Barrett wrote: > Larry, sounds like you got a Plan 9 up your sleeve? Are there any > peer-to-peer networks implemented on it yet?? > On another note, it appears to me that Samba is indeed case-sensitive > -- is something tricking me into believing that?
Samba has a number of options for how to treat filenames (preserve case, mangle case, mapping, etc). > And finally, Seth spake of the difficulty in using NFS when Winbloze > boxen be involved; > are there no (worthy) NFS clients? I've used X-Win Pro (to provide > X11 on win32), and I noticed it starts up an NFS share by default... > I'll play with it and see. I've never configured NFS, though. > Any tips? MS has cleverly never revealed the inner APIs that would allow a third party do write a Win NFS client. And MS has shown no interest in developing one on its own. > Thanks, > Ben > > larry a price wrote: > >Why don't we all just agree to use a persistent distributed object > >protocol that would transparently replicate public data to every > > host within the trust boundary, then we could have all sorts of > > intriguing stuff like, data that would become public only if an > > admin approved it, data objects that would only copy themselves to > > hosts where their owner had an account data that would refuse to > > copy itself to more than X hosts at a time. Of course entropy > > works in the direction of making everything either publicly > > available or hopelessly corrupted -- or both. hmmph sounds almost > > like a basic law of the universe there. > > > >http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, > > Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to > > serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but > > learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) > > http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworkin > >g > > > >On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Linux Rocks ! wrote: > >>The biggest difference you will notice is performance! NFS performs > >> much better than windows file sharing too. It seems like its just > >> part of your filesystem... Pat might have some other options too.. > >> I think he mentioned afs? or some other network filesystem that > >> sounded somehow more apealing than nfs. > >> > >>Jamie > >> > >>On Sunday 11 November 2001 09:58, you wrote: > >>>If you're exporting a filesystem from one *nix box to another *nix > >>> box (no Windows), which works better, NFS or Samba? It seems to > >>> me that NFS is the right choice, because it supports native Unix > >>> filesystem semantics. > >>> > >>>Specifically, NFS: > >>> > >>> understands that filenames are case-dependent > >>> > >>> understands symbolic links > >>> > >>> understands Unix permissions > >>> > >>> does file locking > >>> > >>> even understands that unlink(2) doesn't delete the file until > >>> the last open reference is closed. > >>> > >>>AFAIK, Samba doesn't do any of those right, because its primary > >>> job is to interface with Redmond Brain Damage. But I don't know > >>> much about Samba. Somebody tell me I'm wrong. > >>> > >>>Does Samba have any security advantage over NFS? Both send file > >>>contents over the net in cleartext, don't they? Both can be > >>> easily spoofed by someone who's sniffing packets, can't they? > >>> > >>>Jim Darrough recently asked me about sharing a file system between > >>> two Linux boxen, and I told him how to set it up using NFS. He > >>> said that Seth had recommended Samba. So I ask you guys, "Why > >>> Samba?"
