On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 10:13, Nick Rout wrote: > ooops what I actually meant was "you can use mount -t smbfs for a SMB > (not samba) share on a remote computer" - in other words a directory > shared using the smb protocol, be it windows or unix based. > > And I agree, if it is strictly between unix hosts, smb is a waste of > resources, the only advantage would be if you wanted windows users to > share at the same time.
More so - you can share the same directory on your linux server with NFS and samba at the same time. Other linux hosts benefit from NFS speed, and windows users see the same thing!
