On Sunday 18 December 2005 6:55 pm, DJA wrote: > I suppose you could look at it that way. But from a programmer's point > of view (i.e. mine), the Samba server is not accessing the client's > filesystem. The client is accessing the server's filesystem (sort of).
Technically, the Client is accessing the SMB resource provided by the Server, which happens to be backed by an NTFS filesystem on the Server's local storage. So, the client doesn't need to know a wit about NTFS, the client only needs to know about SMB. Intentional brain damage introduced by Microsoft aside, SMB can be leveraged as the equalizing protocol here, as just about anything can speak it, thanks to the amazing Samba project. :) Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade Sr. Systems Administrator Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego Office: EBU3b 1216 Phone: (858) 822-2625 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
