On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:49:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
| I used to have a full-blown Windows network set up at home with 5 PCs.
| As I started converting them to Linux I would set up Samba on each
| machine so they could still talk with the other Windows machines. At
| this point, I only have ONE fulltime Windows box running, and that's my
| local PDC/NAT router/Web server/DNS server/DHCP server. I'm in the
| process of migrating services off of that box so that I can switch to a
| fully free (as in speech) apartment. (At least as far as OS's go. I
| still use a few non-free packages.)
|
| I've heard that SMB isn't really the greatest protocol for file sharing
| between systems on a LAN.
It's not, mainly because it has no concept of user or permissions
(like windows itself). Ever notice how all files accessed via samba
have the same user/group and perms?
| I've also heard good things about Coda and a
Coda sounds good, but I don't see any "venus" package in debian :-(.
I wanted to try it out, but the docs all say it is still
"experimental".
| few strong-points about NFS. What would you all suggest?
NFS is tried and true. It was developed before Fast Ethernet and was
intended for Unix systems. The hitches are :
o UID/GID must match on client and server
o isn't suitable for high-latency or low-reliability links
o only suitable for a LAN
o an export is exported to an entire machine; and your server is
dependent on that machine to report the correct UID/GID for
all operations. File/directory perms on the exported volume
are still significant, though.
| Sticking with Samba is easy enough as it's already configured, but
| if it's not the best thing that I could be using, I'd rather switch
| to the best. TIA.
Even though I don't have lots of experience in this arena, I think NFS
would be the best option for you since you have control over all the
machines. Read the NFS HOWTO. It is decent, and with some
experimenting NFS isn't hard to set up. It is harder to setup with a
diskless term (I still haven't gotten that squared away), and don't
have too tight of a firewall between the machines on your lan.
HTH,
-D
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