Re: Alternatives To NFS?
-- Charlie Grosvenor <charliemail@cgrosvenor.co.uk> wrote
(on Friday, 20 September 2002, 02:28 PM +0100):
> On Mon 09/09/2002 at 20:43 I posted a message to this mailing
> lists subject "NFS Mounted Home Directories Machine Keeps Locking Up".
> Despite doing what people recommend I am still having the problems (I
> must admit it doesn't seem to happen as often but it is very annoying).
> Is there any alternative to NFS that I can use to mount my home
> directory on my server?
Believe it or not, I use Samba. It's easy to export the home directories
(this is usually in the default configuration), and you can set up fstab
easily to mount them as well. I have set up my firewall so that the SMB
and NMB ports aren't accesible to the outside world, and also use
encrypted passwords. (I also have Samba sharing out a printer, which has
made printing on a mixed-client network MUCH easier, but that's another
story.) It's been much less hassle and much easier to maintain than NFS
for me.
--Matthew
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