G'day Cameron. from one expatriated Brit to another (if only by heredity ;-)
Well you pretty much got my sentiment. I wasn't sure about nfs vs Samba, but instinct told me the former would probably be a better performer linux<->linux. Unfortunately, the Windows machine I want to keep going is Win98, not 2k, and even then I don't want to give Redmond another cent (for the resource kit) if I can help it. I agree, bugger 'em. I'll do it the way you suggest - nfs between linux boxen and Samba for the lame - er, sorry - game box ;-) That way my risk is minimised. j. ===================== At 01:04 AM 2/26/02, you wrote: >On 00:08 26 Feb 2002, Julian Opificius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >| 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!). > >No. Use Samba for exporting to your Windows boxen, but use NFS >between Linux boxen. Even though NFS has its shortcomings, it is >MUCH BETTER than the SMB protocol, which is an ugly multiversioned >incompatible-even-between-windows hash. There's a well known quote from >Tridge to the effect that if he'd realised how much pain there was in >SMB he'd never have started Samba. > >| 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. > >Bugger 'em. > >| 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. > >And if you have the option, that's way cool. The Services For UNIX >collection for Win2K (part of one of the Resource Kits) is Very Very >handy, and pretty cool. Makes your Win2K box: > > - use NFS shares directly > - use your NIS server to map between UNIX and Windows user names > - offers handy browsing and network-neighbourhood-like stuff > >It's very slick, _if_ you have Win2K and UNIX and have the $s to spend on the >resource kit. > >But between UNIX boxes, use NFS. SMB is a horrible crock. > >Cheers, >-- >Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ > >Microsoft Mail: as far from RFC-822 as you can get and still pretend to care. > - Abby Franquemont-Guillory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >_______________________________________________ >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
