On Tuesday 16 April 2002 01:30 pm, 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. I've also heard good things about Coda and a > few strong-points about NFS. What would you all suggest? 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. >
in terms of a near plain as possible vanilla approach with the least possible security risk, samba is my favored solution--if all you have to consider is linux and windoze in a low volume traffic scenario. if you're really going for win-indepence and never need to negotiate with a winbox again on the local network, nfs is your friend. i've never heard any great reason to go with coda on linux, unless some of your local system involves a variety of genuine *nix derivatives. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
