On Thursday 27 March 2008 17:01:13 Les Mikesell wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >> It seems like a kludge to use cifs to share between two linux boxes. > > > > Because I would have to do samba anyway, as windows laptops from other > > family members want to access from time to time. They always bring them > > to me if any configuration work or maintenance needs doing, and even to > > work on my LAN when their network is down for any reason. In particular, > > one directory that I samba share is a repository that my daughter and I > > both need access to, and its content changes fairly often. I didn't want > > to have to run two systems for sharing. > > You can do both fairly easily and transparently. The usual reason for > not using NFS is that it isn't secure if client users have local root > access (or can boot something that would) - but that probably doesn't > matter for a home setup.
I guess that when I've nothing more urgent to do I ought to read up on NFS. Anne
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