Re: Samba alternative
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:14:40PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
| On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
|
| > * curtis (curtis@npc-usa.com) spake thusly:
| > > In a contribution to the Samba alternative discussion:
| > >
| > > I have heard on beachmark tests, Samba, however, is much faster than
| > > NFS. In fact, as I understand this person recommends using SAMBA over
| > > NFS even in pure Linux environment for this reason alone.
| > >
| > > Does anyone know otherwise?
| >
| > Well, I'm sure it'll work just fine if everyone always
| > logs in as root. Otherwise there is this little problem
| > with file ownerships/permissions: they don't map between
| > Unix and Windows all that nicely.
| Except that the OP said he was dropping Windows hosts, so this concern is
| irrelevant.
It is relevant, though. Samba/SMB was designed with windows in mind,
and as a result doesn't understand ownerships/permissions. If you use
samba, all the files in that share have the same owner/group and
perms. Even if windows isn't in the picture, that's not such a good
thing.
-D
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