Re: [CentOS] SAMBA vs NFS

2009-11-26 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 20:22 +, James Bensley wrote: > I think the file locking only causes a problem with windows clients > because of certain files types such as Access databases (.mdb) wanting > to lock the file so that other users don't open the same database and > corrupt data, for example.

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA vs NFS

2009-11-26 Thread James Bensley
I think the file locking only causes a problem with windows clients because of certain files types such as Access databases (.mdb) wanting to lock the file so that other users don't open the same database and corrupt data, for example. -- Regards, James ;) Charles de Gaulle - "The better I get

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA vs NFS

2009-11-26 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 09:40 -0800, Keith Keller wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:14:56AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > > NFS mounts for Linux users > > Samba for Windows users > > Netatalk for Macintosh clients > > Wow, I didn't even know netatalk was still around! How does it compare > to

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA vs NFS

2009-11-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Keith Keller schrieb: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:14:56AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > >> NFS mounts for Linux users >> Samba for Windows users >> Netatalk for Macintosh clients >> > > Wow, I didn't even know netatalk was still around! How does it compare > to SMB on OS X clients? I'm thi

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA vs NFS

2009-11-26 Thread Keith Keller
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:14:56AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > > NFS mounts for Linux users > Samba for Windows users > Netatalk for Macintosh clients Wow, I didn't even know netatalk was still around! How does it compare to SMB on OS X clients? I'm thinking that, unless you have a pressing nee

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA vs NFS

2009-11-26 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 10:15 -0500, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > A coworker wants to share drives between CentOS systems via SAMBA, > which sort of seems pretty counter intuitive to me. But he says he's > had troubles in the past with NFS. He was sort of short on details, > but something

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA vs NFS

2009-11-26 Thread mark
Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > A coworker wants to share drives between CentOS systems via SAMBA, > which sort of seems pretty counter intuitive to me. But he says he's > had troubles in the past with NFS. He was sort of short on details, > but something about NFS not being reliable unless

[CentOS] SAMBA vs NFS

2009-11-26 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, A coworker wants to share drives between CentOS systems via SAMBA, which sort of seems pretty counter intuitive to me. But he says he's had troubles in the past with NFS. He was sort of short on details, but something about NFS not being reliable unless you enable NFS locking, but w