Thanks, but in fact (I probably should have stated more explicitly) Windows is the one OS we don't care about, out of the big three.
Regards, Nick Neil Sikka wrote: > hey. we were dealing with this issue of network linux permissions at > work. We needed a network location to boot off of, so we used NFS. In > order to boot off a partition, you DEFINITELY need to have the correct > linux permissions in place(ie you cant boot linux off fat or ntfs). we > used NFS and were able to boot off of it. So, it definately provides a > network location with linux style permissions. heres BNFS client for > windows: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324055 > > Overall, im pretty sure NFS will let you have linux permissions AND > windows access all on a netork location. I dont know anything about > Mac so i cant help u there. > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:24 PM, P Purkayastha <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Nick Cummings wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > fuse+sshfs may be a nice way of "transparently" using the files. A > google search shows that fuse+sshfs is available on Mac too. > > > > > -- > Neil Sikka
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