Re: Samba alternative
SMB is, indeed, a little hack-ish for an all-*ix network. NFS is probably
sufficient for a small network like the one you're talking about, although
there are enough security things to think about that if you're not behind
some kind of firewall you might want to think about limiting to NFS over
TCP or something like that. AFS/Coda are very nice, but kind of overkill
if you're only sharing locally.
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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
On 16 Apr 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I used to have a full-blown Windows network set up at home with 5 PCs.
> As I started converting them to Linux I would set up Samba on each
> machine so they could still talk with the other Windows machines. At
> this point, I only have ONE fulltime Windows box running, and that's my
> local PDC/NAT router/Web server/DNS server/DHCP server. I'm in the
> process of migrating services off of that box so that I can switch to a
> fully free (as in speech) apartment. (At least as far as OS's go. I
> still use a few non-free packages.)
>
> I've heard that SMB isn't really the greatest protocol for file sharing
> between systems on a LAN. I've also heard good things about Coda and a
> few strong-points about NFS. What would you all suggest? Sticking with
> Samba is easy enough as it's already configured, but if it's not the
> best thing that I could be using, I'd rather switch to the best. TIA.
>
> -Alex
>
>
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