OK - fair point! I've found that one way to learn fast is to assert that you know how to do something on this list and see how many ways you can be shot down ;-) I guess I felt that setting up the NFS shares was so easy (and there are only a couple of them) that it was less effort than learning how to use Samba shares from Linux
Anyway, your point is well taken and I will have a look at moving to a Samba-only setup. thanks and regards Brian On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 11:26, Michael Leone wrote: > 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. > > -- > > Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone > > PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF > PGP public key: > <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg>
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