On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 18:43, Brian Parish wrote:

> 3. Some of the replies about Samba v NFS certainly confused me.  Here's
> my take on it from experience of setting up my own identical LAN (well
> there are 4 machines, but otherwise identical).  NFS makes it really
> simple to share with Linux clients.  Samba makes is really simple to
> share with Windows clients.  I just setup the directories I want to
> share as both NFS and Samba shares, so the win clients see them as win
> shares and the linux clients see them as NFS.  Easy!

In this case, you're duplicating shares, protocols, effort, etc. It's
more efficient to just choose one, the one that is commonly supported by
the most clients. In this case, Samba. IMO.

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