On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:45:57 -0700, Timothy Sipples wrote: >>Another response was to use SMB. But I have no experience with that. >>And, given the general hostility of the Windows people towards the z/OS >>system (and, I admit, the opposite), trying to set up z/OS as a "Windows >>file server" is likely to be met with a "no way." Hum, and likely the >>same on our side as well. > >Except that the Windows server people will be *more* hostile to NFS. It's >more work for them. NFS is not a "native" Windows file system. SMB is. The >reverse is probably true for Linux and UNIX, although Samba (SMB support >for Linux) is pretty easy and convenient.
The reason to use NFS instead of SMB is that NFS is an actual standard while SMB is not. Granted, SMB seems to be what Windows uses but MS didn't publish the interface and a new release (or patch level) could break it at any time... then the Windows weenies would REALLY growl, right? Meet them halfway with NFS and if either side breaks the standard they need to get it fixed. Simple enough for management to understand. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
