[sclug] Network filesystems and printing

[Keith Edmunds]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:58:15 +0000
Will Dickson <wrd at glaurung.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> This gives me the opportunity to ditch the SMB compatibility 
> protocol and move to a pure unix setup, eg using NFS and 
> CUPS / IPP. OTOH I've heard some nasty things about NFS as well.

NFS works fine, particularly on a small LAN, but it can be pain to set
up - some of the configuration files are very picky about spaces,
syntax, etc. But it works. If you are familiar with ssh and keys, you
might like to look at shfs, which might be more suitable.

Keith