As I mentioned a while back, I have a LAN at home with a couple of computers on it and want a convenient way to share files, mainly so we can put our music on a centralized file server and listen to it from any computer in the house. The only computers I care about connecting are running Ubuntu or OS X. I'd certainly like to be able to limit who on the LAN can access the files, and I'd prefer to also find something that would support the Unix file permissions on the disk. What's the best way to share these files?
I've used Samba for this in the past, which worked okay, but is a little weird with permissions due to its Windows origins. That was an acceptable solution, but not ideal, and I ended up spending some time fine-tuning the smb.conf file. Maybe NFS is a better option? Or can WebDAV be used for this reasonably (I asked about this possibility in the past)? As I said, Samba was a little bit of a pain to get working the way I wanted. Is there a better solution or an equally good but especially easy solution? Thanks for suggestions, Nick
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