On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 03:08:41 +0000 Kanito 73 <kanit...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello > > I have up and running two dual boot LINUX (Debian 10) and WINDOWS 10 > machines and want to connect them to be able to work without spending > time copying files from/to on a usb device, have multiple copies of a > same file, etc. > > I may need to copy from Linux to Windows, sometimes from Windows to > Linux, other ones from Linux to Linux, and so... Would you recommend > me to use SAMBA for all of that? All data partitions are NTFS and > there's no need to set permissions since all data are audio, video, > image and document files and the only user is me. > > At first I thought to use both SAMBA for LINUX-WINDOWS and maybe NFS > for LINUX-LINUX but I used NFS long time ago and it was slow as a > turtle. Is there another networking service available that runs > faster only for LINUX-LINUX or it is better to use SAMBA for > everything_ > > Good nite all 🙂 The general rule is that if Windows is involved, use Samba for everything. It can be a bit tricky to get more than one version of Windows working with the same Samba configuration, but you don't have that problem. -- Joe