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Re: Samba or NFS--tangent



On 06/04/11 at 12:58am, Doug wrote:
> On 06/03/2011 11:28 PM, William Hopkins wrote:
> >On 06/03/11 at 10:02pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >>[snip]
> >>>NFS is by far simpler to use in pure Linux environment, Samba is for
> >>>Windows networks. NFS has no passwords, just install it with apt-get,
> >>>and declare /etc/exports in the server, and mount the shares in the
> >>>clients /etc/fstab. That's all it takes.
> >>>
> >>Fine for home environments, but shouldn't an office environment use
> >>LDAP for coordinated UID/GID sharing?
> >
> /snip/
> 
> Not to steal the thread, but those who read this probably are the best to
> advise me.  I know nothing about networking, but I would like to set up
> a peer-to-peer network ...
Peer to peer typically refers to filesharing programs. Can you explain what it is you want?
I assume you've already got a network up, is it file sharing you mean?

If that's so, you probably don't even need samba. Just smbfs/smbclient on the linux clients to read the stuff on the Windows 7 box. 

-- 
Liam

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