[Gllug] Samba or NFS

[Ian Northeast]

Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
> Alex Singleton wrote:
> 
>>I'm going to set up an Ubuntu Server at work (a small office) at the
>>end of the week. The server will mainly be serving Macs but needs to
>>also let Windows laptops have access. Which is better for the
>>situation - Samba or NFS?
> 
> 
> If it's an option - why not run both Samba and Netatalk?  The latter is
> an implementation of AppleTalk and included in the ubuntu universe
> repository - it's much "smoother" on a Mac than Samba.

I used to have a Netatalk server on Linux which worked fine when my Mac 
ran OS9 but I could never get it to work with OSX. Probably just me not 
knowing OSX well enough, but I managed it with 9.

NFS and SMB OTOH both worked fine on OSX. I'd tend to use NFS for OSX. 
It's a BSD UNIX like system really so NFS is natural to it.

If the OP has both OS9 (or earlier) and OSX there's nothing wrong with 
running NFS, Samba and Netatalk. I'm pretty sure I used to (it was a 
while ago I upgraded the Mac to OSX and it runs Linux mostly anyway).

Regards, Ian

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