[Wylug-discuss] EeePC and Samba

[John Leach]

I actually quite like Samba/SMB and use it to connect all my boxes on my
home LAN.  I think it generally simplifies things compared to NFS and
provides proper authentication, rather than the usual NFS IP based auth.
This is of course dependent on your own needs.

And if you mount as CIFS (which Samba supports) you get the proper
uid/gid stuff that you might expect with NFS anyway.  I believe it's
POSIX compliant then (or closer to than SMB at least :).

John.

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:50 +0000, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
> > I've had no luck so far getting samba to work.  First, an explanation.  I use
> > samba for all my networking even though 99% of it is linux to linux.  The 1%
> > windows connectivity is the reason for this.
> 
> So why not have NFS and CIFS exports for things?  Just because you use Samba
> doesn't mean you can't use other things too.
> 
> jh
> 
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