[CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

[Scott Silva]

on 3-27-2008 11:40 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:
> On Thursday 27 March 2008 17:01:13 Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>> It seems like a kludge to use cifs to share between two linux boxes.
>>> Because I would have to do samba anyway, as windows laptops from other
>>> family members want to access from time to time.  They always bring them
>>> to me if any configuration work or maintenance needs doing, and even to
>>> work on my LAN when their network is down for any reason.  In particular,
>>> one directory that I samba share is a repository that my daughter and I
>>> both need access to, and its content changes fairly often.  I didn't want
>>> to have to run two systems for sharing.
>> You can do both fairly easily and transparently.  The usual reason for
>> not using NFS is that it isn't secure if client users have local root
>> access (or can boot something that would) - but that probably doesn't
>> matter for a home setup.
> 
> I guess that when I've nothing more urgent to do I ought to read up on NFS.
> 
> Anne
> 
NFS will be much better for the linux to linux connections because it passes 
native system calls on the files instead of a protocol that is emulated and 
made to work.

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