-- Charlie Grosvenor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 20 September 2002, 02:28 PM +0100): > On Mon 09/09/2002 at 20:43 I posted a message to this mailing > lists subject "NFS Mounted Home Directories Machine Keeps Locking Up". > Despite doing what people recommend I am still having the problems (I > must admit it doesn't seem to happen as often but it is very annoying). > Is there any alternative to NFS that I can use to mount my home > directory on my server?
Believe it or not, I use Samba. It's easy to export the home directories (this is usually in the default configuration), and you can set up fstab easily to mount them as well. I have set up my firewall so that the SMB and NMB ports aren't accesible to the outside world, and also use encrypted passwords. (I also have Samba sharing out a printer, which has made printing on a mixed-client network MUCH easier, but that's another story.) It's been much less hassle and much easier to maintain than NFS for me. --Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
