Steve Holdoway wrote: >> Samba working with Unix Extensions on is currently 'the right thing' - >> > how is that better than nfs?
Are you asking from a perspective of "I already believe NFS to be 'the right thing', and I wish to see why you disagree" or from "This is a general-purpose list and I wish to encourage an illuminating discussion to assist people who do not have enough expertise to choose for themselves"? I've no interest in debating technical-level NFS vs Samba, because I don't know NFS in sufficient detail. Many of the problems of one are present in the other, and I expect each has different critical-failure modes. >From a general-purpose level, I'd say that many users already have/want Samba, so that they can talk to windows PCs easily. So they should feel free to use Samba for unix to unix conversations too :-) The extended functionality in Samba these days understands the concepts of permissions and ownership in a way that Windows does not (and therefore was not originally present in SMB) -jim
