Jerry, what do we need to look out for as far as security goes for NFS systems? I was of the understanding NFS can have security problems.
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:09:48 +0800 "m.w.chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> Is it better to use samba to share files for LAN? >> > > Like everything else... If your lan is totally Linux, then NFS will serve > you very well. You'll find it fast, easy to setup and admin. Although > there's windows utilities that will integrate them into an NFS network, > the best ones are commercial apps and can be very expensive. > > Samba is mostly useful if you happen to provide lan services to windows > users. Samba integrates seamlessly into a mix of linux and windows nearly > perfectly. The only sore point I have with samba is that there is no > perfect common ground between file systems in regards to file attributes > and user ownership. Depending how you have your smb.conf setup... copying > a file across samba to a linux client and it'll end up with the execute > attribute turned on... > > If you are just getting into setting up your first linux lan, then NFS is > perfect. > > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
