On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 at 15:45, Joseph wrote: > Is Samber better than NFS?
I presume you mean Samba and not Samber. Samba and NFS have quite different uses. While they both share centrally stored files, NFS exports directories ala UNIX including the UID/GID/mode metadata, while Samba is geared more for linking UNIX and Windows networks as one. I'm not saying you can't use Samba for UNIX-UNIX file sharing, and this has its merits, too. Some illustrations to highlight the differences: If you want to export your entire /home tree for central home directory management to support a central authentication system like using auth_ldap for example, you probably want to use NFS. This way your workstations can simply mount server:/home on their /home, and you're off. On the other hand you may have a tree of directories with various data which you need to manage with more fine-grained ACLs, and you don't have access to a filesystem with ACL support (on such UNIX filesystem that supports ACLs, BTW, is XFS). In this case you can use Samba as a layer to give you this fine-grained ACL support, then have users manually mount (as non-root using smbmount) the shares they need wherever they work like mapping a share to a drive using Windows. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : <http://jijo.free.net.ph/> Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key Fingerprint : 0x93B746BE _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
