Well I've had excellent experience so far with Samba in both directions between my three Win98 boxes and one RH7.2 box, so I suppose I might as well stick with that as I migrate two of the Win98 boxes to RH. (I have to leave one Win98 as my sons' gaming box!).
The only worry with going Samba is the threat that MS might pull the plug by evolving SMB and digging their heels in over licensing. I just thought there was something less MS-ish that worked as well as Samba does. NFS is probably it, but I'd need an NFS client for the Windows box. Thanks for the input, Brett. j. ===================== At 11:32 PM 2/25/02, you wrote: >On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 22:26, Julian Opificius wrote: > > Thanks Brett, > > Seems nfs would be the way to go. I'll have to load it. > > How does samba compare to nfs, in the case that I want to share to > Windows too? > > >I have never set up samba client on a linux machine so I am not a good >sorce of info on that. I have two servers that are samba servers and >windows boxes from 98 thru xp all see them perfectly. I have considered >using samba on all of the services and doing away with nfs but have >never had the time to research how well linux clients would play with >it. I try to reserve my limited admin time for stuff that needs fixing >right now :) When I do get some IT time it is usually spent coding >enhancments for some portion of our system. > >Seems like I read somewhere that samba really merges the best of both >worlds (MS and *nix) but I just have a hard time trusting MS stuff, >largely because I don't understand it as well I guess. > >BTW on a RH 7.1 server the entire using samba o'reilly book "Using >Samba" is buried under /usr/share/swat/using_samba > >It probably has everything you want to know but did not even know enough >to ask :) I suspect 7.2 has it as well. it is included in the >samba-swat rpm. swat is the webbased gui tool put out by the samba guys. > >HTH > >Bret > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ============================== Julian A. Opificius. 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 612.296.2010 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 ============================== _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
