Re: NFS, Samba, something more obscure?
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 23:30:14 +0200, Carl Fink wrote:
> Now I have a tower and a laptop at home, and to share files it would be much
> easier to share a filesystem.
>
> I've never used NFS, but everything I read says it's highly insecure. OTOH,
> my network sits behind a Belkin router with only my own systems as nodes.
>
> The other obvious choice would be Samba, which would have advantages since I
> sometimes boot my laptop into Windows XP. I also hear it's more secure than
> NFS (?) but much harder to set up.
I use both NFS and samba to share /home on a linux server to linux and
windows clients, on a lan with a linux firewall. Samba works for
sharing /home to linux, however it doesn't correctly track file
permissions and this causes a lot of problems loading .xsession and a
few other things I can't remember right now.
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