On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 07:33:06PM -0400, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 17:38, IL Ka <kazakevichi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I belive NFS is rarely used nowadays, especially with Windows clients.
> > People use samba/smb to connect *nix to Windows in most cases. Samba should
> > be pretty stable because OS X uses it to coexist with MS oses.
>
> I use it on osx: it is a crippled version of the original that causes endless
> problems with file permissions. Rock solid for the rest.
>
> I would use samba on obsd, but its package requires x11, believe it or not. I
> mentioned the problem in misc@ and received insults by someone occlusive and
> dogmatic, so I will not raise the problem again. I am compiling a proper
> version, but it will take days on the given hardware...
We have gone through this before. Some packages need some libraries
that are distributed as part of the base X install. There is no harm
in that. You do not need to install the server part of X of that makes
you feel better.
-Otto
