[PLUG] network

[James C. Lewis]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Will Andrews wrote:
> NFS is not the only method for file sharing.  You can also use SMB (not
> recommended unless you have Windows machines), AFS, Arla, or Coda.  See

What's wrong with using SMB in an all Unix environment?  Especially if its
on a LAN thats behind a firewall?  To make my life easier I went all SMB
so that my laptop and Vmware machine could talk to the filesever.  Its
been my experience that two unix machines using samba to talk to each
other is stable.  (And if you are using NFS to define "stable" then yes,
samba is just as stable)

With the broken NFS (broken in my experience anyway) that is shipped with
Redhat 6.0, it was easier to get my firewall and desktop to mount drives
with samba than NFS. (of course this was also a lesson in straying from
slackware for my firewall)

-James C. Lewis
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