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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080327/b934a7d4/attachment-0005.sig>