Daniel Dalton wrote:
Hi,
I'm having problems with nfs, so was just wondering:
1. Is samba better than nfs?
2. Does anyone know of a good samba howto?
3. Unfortunately people on my network still use windows, I dunno why,
but what settings should I have in place for it to work with win?
Or, should I use nfs? If so, it seems I must restart nfs-common and
nfs-kernel-server using init.d on every boot otherwise I get mount.nfs
access denied on server when trying to connect with the client...
Anyone know why this could be? I have iptables setup, but allowed all
ports the debian wiki howto on nfs and static ports said too...
Or is samba just easier? And how do I make samba use static ports if I
choose to use it?
Thanks for any help,
You could conceivably have both samba and NFS support at the same time.
Samba may be a bit better for a small network with Windows machines.
There exists a lot of support for it, and configuration is pretty
painless in my experience. NFS is workable.
You probably could edit the boot init scripts to get NFS working. I
would have thought that they got edited during installation. Did you
install NFS support from the Debian package(s)? Also, is full support
in the kernel? Are you using a standard kernel image, or did you roll
your own? Maybe a module is not loading; another boot issue there.
I only ever bothered with the various GUIs to configure Samba. I expect
that using static IPs is a matter of running the proper GUI network
config program. I'm sure you can edit a config file somewhere in /etc
if you want, but there is probably no need. Someone else will have to
help you with a more specific the answer to this question. (I think
Samba knows about iptables doesn't it?)
Mark Allums
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