Basically I want to set up a network share on my OpenBSD box which my Mac laptops and Linux laptops can access to.
Smb seems kind of weird in a environment with no M$ systems... however this is probably what I am most familiar with because I did it in the past on OpenBSD and it was a breeze to set up. I also tried out NFS in the past on OpenBSD. Got it to work but I don't really understand how it works. There aren't any form of authentication, just a list of IP that has access to it... which always seemed weird to me... that it uses whatever permission on the OpenBSD on the laptop, which doesn't really work out... like the group "users" can have a very different gid on Linux than on Mac. Maybe I am not using it correctly or understood how it is supposed to work? So now I am looking at AFP via Netatalk, which seem to be Unix like enough but have password authentication like Smb, and some suggested that it would have good performance with Mac... and Linux has support for it through FUSE... however I have no experience with it... is it good or not? So I can't decide what to do at this moment... I'll most likely are going to try out netatalk... but if you have a similar environment, like one without much concern for M$, please suggest what would you do for file sharing, and why.... thanks a lot!!
