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

Thu Mar 27 18:40:09 UTC 2008
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>

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
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