Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba

2013-07-13 Thread Linda Walsh
Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:52:49 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I ask this question about once a decade. I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? I haven't done timings agains

Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba

2013-07-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:22 PM, steve wrote: > On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 13:46 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: >> At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:52:49 -0400 Steve Litt >> wrote: >> >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I ask this question about once a decade. >> > >> > I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are the

Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba

2013-07-11 Thread steve
On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 13:46 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:52:49 -0400 Steve Litt > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I ask this question about once a decade. > > > > I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I > > can do with Samba, even thoug

Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba

2013-07-11 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:52:49 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > I ask this question about once a decade. > > I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I > can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? Not really. Samba is just a tool to deal wit

Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba

2013-07-11 Thread Fernando Lozano
Hi Steve, I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? I'd use Samba only to support Windows users. Samba provides three things: 1. File Services 2. Print Services 3. Network Logons As you are a Unix-only s

Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Weiss
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I ask this question about once a decade. > > I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I > can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? Yes! I've found samba and mount.cifs to be far fast

[Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba

2013-07-11 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I ask this question about once a decade. I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Pe