On 3/13/08, Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Carter wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Yuri wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > For linux to linux mounts I use nfs. Simpler. > > I disagree completely. > If you have multiple users on your network then the UIDs have to be > consistent across ALL machines > using the NFS sharing. > > If they aren't then the permission hell you can get into is vicious. > > I have been a victim of this so many time now that I will only ever use > sshfs or fish. > Smb doesn't have the NFS probs either so could be better.
Except that it's a lot slower than NFS. Folks may be interested in these URLs about other networked file-systems:- OpenAFS - http://www.openafs.org/ Mature and Secure when combined with Kerberos - http://www.kerberos.org/about/index.html Coda - http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ A derivative of the above. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
