On Thursday 14 November 2002 06:57 pm, you wrote:
> OK. I am ready to start kicking things...
Hopefully it will have Bill Gates picture on it somewhere! <lol>
> I have my MDK 9 server running. I want to share some folders. I thought
> there was a suggestion that using NFS was more secure and faster than
> Samba, so I decided to make that happen.
On my setup, I feel (this is very subjective) that NFS is as fast as Samba,
but everything I've read says that Samba is more secure. I use NFS here on my
3 comp LAN, but its trusted. I'd not use NFS on an untrusted LAN or LAN
segment.
> My exports file is really simple:
>
> /home/username workstation (rw)
This is my /etc/exports file on my server:
#
/home/darklord/public 192.168.0.2(rw)
/home/darklord/public 192.168.0.3(rw)
Notice there is no space between the 2/3 and the "(".
I'm the server - both 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3 are clients.
And here are the /etc/fstab entries from the two machines I'm exporting to:
darkforce:/home/darklord/public /home/zerocool/public nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0
darkforce:/home/darklord/public /home/jeremy/public nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0
My sons comps dual-boot into Mandrake v8.2 or Win 98SE. I use NFS in Linux
and whenever I need to copy/grab any files from their comps in Windows, I
just use:
Mandrake Control Center -> Mount Points -> Samba Mount Points -> Search
Servers -> click on server found (shows their C drive here) -> Mount (I use
/root/Network/DarkForce2 or DarkForce3, depending on the machine), I then su
and go into /root/Network/DarkForce2/3 and bingo-hey!-presto, I'm looking at
their C drive. When you quit this session, it will ask you if you want to
make these changes to /etc/ fstab.
I prefer NFS between all comps on my LAN when In Linux because it doesn't
hang up. I can bootup or shut down any machine, in any order and it doesn't
hang up. If I do this with Samba, and don't mount/unmount correctly first, it
will hang up. If I boot up and Samba doesn't find its targets, it takes a
long time to continue the boot process. (this is assuming that you made
permanent changes for Samba to /etc/fstab).
Hope this helps! :-)
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