FW: [Malvern] NFS or Samba ?

[Ian Pascoe]

Geoff

Perhaps also adding to the shopping list something like a SSH connection
from your laptop when your out and about back to your home network ....

The problem is here, I've got the ideas, but not the know how!

Yep, hope to see you next Tuesday.

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Bagley [mailto:geoff.bagley at btinternet.com]
Sent: 28 January 2008 21:31
To: ianpascoe at btinternet.com
Cc: Malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Malvern] NFS or Samba ?


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
>
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