[Malvern] NFS or Samba ?

[Geoff Bagley]

Hi Ian,
Good to hear from you.
I thought that a back-up archive on a separate machine might be useful.  
(Not forgetting that it too
will require backing up !
I sometimes want to move operations from one machine to another - I now 
have a pair of Toshiba lap-tops.
I could also have a separate machine  using a different distribution  
without having to commit all my work to it.

So the first answer would be to use it a a file store common to the 
whole ether-network,  the particular
files being variable.

I guess that if I shut down an old machine, I could keep material in 
common use without having to start
afresh on the new machine.  I guess it could collect emails, but hadn't 
thought much about it.
Security monitoring could run there. and log-keeping as a background job.

My initial thought was that I don't need Microsoft compatibility,  so 
why use Samba, unless it has
other great advantages.

See some of you Tuesday week,

Geoff.



Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Hi Geoff
>
> To coin a phrase, it all depends ....
>
> What do you want the file server to serve?
>
> Do you want the server to hold the equivilant of the /home directory for
> each of your current PCs, or just to hold files that are convieniently
> grabbed from one place without having to move them by other means?
>
> Do you want it to do other stuff apart from a file server - collect e-mails
> for example?
>
> Put your thunking cap on, and see what you'd like it to do, and don't worry
> about letting your imagination runing away with you, as someone somewhere
> has probably already done it!
>
> But to answer your question, NFS is a good building block to start off with
> before moving into / onto the more eccentric  file systems.
>
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Geoff Bagley
> Sent: 28 January 2008 17:13
> To: Malvern LUG
> Subject: [Malvern] NFS or Samba ?
>
>
> I am looking into the idea of a separate file-server on my LAN.
>
> Since I have no Windows stuff,  there is no need for Windows
> compatibility, which,
> as I understand it,  means that I don't have  to use Samba.
>
> What is the balance of advantages/disadvantages of using  a) Samba  b)
> NFS  ?
>
> Many thanks.
> Hope to see you Tuesday week  at GMH.
>
> Geoff
>
> _______________________________________________
> Malvern mailing list
> Malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/malvern
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Malvern mailing list
> Malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/malvern
>
>