As he said in his post, NFS is the first place to start. It's available on
FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS, other Unix derived systems, and Windows 7. The one
thing to be careful of is that it works best when you have all home
directories on central servers and all access is on client machines. It is
i would strongly recommend serving windows clients with windows protocol
(samba), it is just simple and works great
For earlier (< 7) Windows boxes, one possibility is running Samba on the Unix
servers. This would seem most natural to a Windows user as they merely have
to browse the network to find the shared file systems.
With windows 7 samba still is far better.
And with NFS you will not be able to enforce security without making
separate filesystem for each user.
However, another possibility is running a WebDAV server that makes the home
directories visible. Windows (>= XP) can connect drive letters to WebDAV
servers, and there are also Android and iPhone apps that can access WebDAV.
if really someone needs HTTP based file access (IMHO stupid) because
phones require this i would rather set it up parallel to SAMBA and/or NFS
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