Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:14 +1200, Paul William wrote:
> > Samba's not a goer. Doesn't do Unix permissions. It's a Windows/OS/2
> > sharing scheme.
> what about http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/ . smbfs with
> unix extentions?
Recent versions of samba and linux support cifs and unix extensions
which do all the normal unixy sorts of things WRT permissions as well as
supporting acls and soft + hard links. You just mount the remote system
with "mount -t cifs //server/share /mount/point -o user=username"
-Mark
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