On Thursday 27 March 2008 18:58:16 Scott Silva wrote: > 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. OK - apart from man pages and general googling, any particular recommended reading? Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080327/ff4d9f24/attachment-0004.sig>