On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
>trevor warren wrote:
>> SAMBA was made to enable transparent file & printer
>> sharing across a n/w. SMB protocol in windows & Linux
>> enables SAMBA to go about sharing file & printers.
>
>samba also loses file permissions, making everything appear as
>executable. I hate that. They need to add in some extensions to maintain
>permissions, like FTP does.
samba was designed for windows to Linux connectivity. So the limitations o
samba are those imposed by windows. I believe NFS will let you preserve
file permissions for Linux to Linux connections.
Devdas Bhagat
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