On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:36:29AM +0800, Andy Sy wrote: > So the question is, when should you use Samba and when > should you use NFS?
Here at The Leather Collection we use both. We use Samba to handle authentication and resource sharing for our Microsoft Windows workstations, as well as file sharing for our GNU/Linux workstations. We use NFS to export home directories for the GNU/Linux workstations. With our current permissions setup, Samba has been difficult to get rid of, even if we forgot about the Microsoft Windows workstations we have. Samba has allowed us to cleanly provide a list of users/groups with read-only access or read-write access per share, and which shares are globally-readable, globally-readable-and-writeable, or restricted. The only way we can replicate this type of setup without Samba is by using ACLs, which are not yet standard on filesystems (we exaluated XFS for awhile because of its support for ACLs). Samba support on GNU/Linux (smbclient and smbfs) is decent, so GNU/Linux clients can access Samba shares on our GNU/Linux server without problems. Performance is not bad, either. We are actually able to saturate our 100Mbps link. My only qualm with Samba is that it needs a separate user database with NT4 hashes to handle encrypted passwords from Windows workstations. :( --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. : software we refer to GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE : freedom, not price. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
