Re: NFS/Samba Alternative

2013-12-19 Thread Cremator
Hello, Some time ago I used POWER5 machine with AIX and NFS for storage purposes, mainly for my private cloud. Then I decided I need SMB share apart of my DC and win file servers on that same machine for some big images. I crawl the internet and found that samba can be used as standalone server an

Re: NFS/Samba Alternative

2013-12-15 Thread Karl Karlsson
Den 15 dec 2013 07:56 skrev "Byron Klippert" : > > Hello, > > > I'm looking at options for sharing machine resources > (drives/directories/files) over LAN between OpenBSD server and Windows7 > clients. > > The Windows7 clients already belong to a corporate domain system, and my > lack of experience

Re: NFS/Samba Alternative

2013-12-15 Thread Byron Klippert
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013, at 5:01, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > Hello Byron, > > the answer to all your questions of course is THE CLOUD :) I prefer to solve problems on THE GROUND :) > Am 12/15/13 07:56, schrieb Byron Klippert: > > I'm looking at options for sharing machine resources > > (drives/direc

Re: NFS/Samba Alternative

2013-12-15 Thread Donald Allen
I can't see the whole history of this conversation because the gmane site is down for maintenance at the moment. But I don't recall cygwin being mentioned and it's certainly another good alternative to samba, as it includes openssh. In theory, you can set up an sshd with cygwin. I say "in theory" b

Re: NFS/Samba Alternative

2013-12-15 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:56:10PM -0800, Byron Klippert wrote: > - can I share a drive using Samba without interfering with the existing > domain system? AFAIK, yes. As long as you setup Samba as a workgroup server and not as a domain controller, I can't see why the clients should not be able to

Re: NFS/Samba Alternative

2013-12-15 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Sat, 14 Dec 2013, Byron Klippert wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking at options for sharing machine resources > (drives/directories/files) over LAN between OpenBSD server and Windows7 > clients. > sftp//sshfs using winscp works great from Windows, . GUI based, secure, "Explorer" interface (or MC).

Re: NFS/Samba Alternative

2013-12-15 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
Hello Byron, the answer to all your questions of course is THE CLOUD :) Am 12/15/13 07:56, schrieb Byron Klippert: > I'm looking at options for sharing machine resources > (drives/directories/files) over LAN between OpenBSD server and Windows7 > clients. Welcome to my world ;-) > The Windows7

Re: NFS/Samba Alternative

2013-12-15 Thread Evan Root
Hello Byron, Firstly, are they windows 7 pro or enterprise? Most people don't know any difference but one that I have found is that Enterprise included the Microsoft NFS client along with their other Unix interoperability tools. Of course almost no one buys enterprise because it much more expensiv

NFS/Samba Alternative

2013-12-14 Thread Byron Klippert
Hello, I'm looking at options for sharing machine resources (drives/directories/files) over LAN between OpenBSD server and Windows7 clients. The Windows7 clients already belong to a corporate domain system, and my lack of experience with Samba is telling me not to converge the two. My first cho