[PLUG] network

[Will Andrews]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 03:37:24PM -0500, James C. Lewis wrote:
> What's wrong with using SMB in an all Unix environment?  Especially if its

Well, mostly because SMB is not a native filesystem, and thus there are
(probably, but I don't know) performance hits.  Furthermore, the only OS
that seems to have mountable SMB fs's is Linux.  Which is bad for shops
with machines running something other than Linux.

> 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)

I don't call NFS stable.  I don't call it fast either.  Or secure.  Coda
is supposed to be all of those...

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