On August 18, 2003 12:44 am, David H. Askew wrote:
> Having very little experience with NFS/Samba and other directory
> services I am at a loss as to where to start my investigation.
> ...
> any thoughts or suggestions/comments you would provide me would be
> helpful.
i have a little pII 233 here and it's running both samba and nfs. nfs is
stupidly easy to setup, just edit one file and you're ready to go. how to
edit that file wasn't a lot of reading, but like everything in linux, if you
don't take the time to read, you're setting yourself up for pain.
i have samba running only for the lone windows box on my network, as well as
my dual boot desktop. the configuration is considerably more complicated,
and imho a pain in the ass... but once it's running, you don't have to worry.
why do i use both? because nfs is linux native and supports file permissions,
executable scripts etc and because it's easy. samba is just there for the
windows boxes, and i'd toss it if i didn't need it.
configuring nfs was easy once i read 2 pages out of o'reilly's "tcp/ip network
administration", and samba was a trial/error thing, reading various docs...
'course it might have gone smoother had i had a book on the subject.
my 2cents.
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