Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Chip Marshall <c...@2bithacker.net> wrote:
>
> On 2013-07-03, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> sent:
> > Another approach would be to use NFS for MacOSX and see how
> > that works. NFS is more native to Linux & Macintosh than CIFS.
>
> If you're going to set up another file sharing protocol just for
> Mac OS X clients, why not go with Netatalk and support AFS?
>
> NFS is built in to Unix. NFS is more supported by client systems as well so
> you can consolidate a bit. Since the use case is wide open permissions, you
> don't have to worry about permissions as much. SMB does much finer grain ACL
> permissions and it's harder to map. I think AFS is too.
>
> AFS is more alien on a Unix server then Samba. There are/is an AFS client for
> Windows, but I don't know of one for Linux. Back in the day with Appletalk,
> the protocols were fairly chatty as well.
Are you talking AFS as in OpenAFS (www.openafs.org)? In which case,
there is an AFS client for all major (and most minor) OSes out there.
> If you want to explore more protocols, things like SSHFS or WebDAV could be
> used with varying success. I've done sshfs on Linux and via swish on
> windows. I think it can be used on MacOSX, but I wouldn't recommend it.
-derek
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