Thursday, October 31, 2002 @ 2:37:20 PM Central Standard Time Cool.....Thanks for the input..... Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars mailto:chewbaka at toughguy.net ********************************************************* Thursday, October 31, 2002, 1:12:15 PM, you wrote: BL> On Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, at 10:31 US/Central, Thomas T. Veldhouse BL> wrote: >> Samba. It is seemless as far as Windows is concerned. It can be >> problematic to set up permissions (docs are very good), but open >> shares a >> very easy. BL> It's as easy to control the perms as NFS is. If not easier. You can BL> force directory and file modes and can limit based on unix group as BL> well as IP. BL> There's no other logical choice for this than samba. >> >> Tom Veldhouse >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "B_o_B" <chewbaka at toughguy.net> >> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:02 AM >> Subject: [TCLUG] NFS or Samba?? >> >> >>> Thursday, October 31, 2002 @ 9:01:47 AM Central Standard Time >>> >>> Hello group. I convinced my boss on switching some 2K Server boxes >>> we use >>> for file sharing & other things over to Slackware. Most of the >>> machines >> in >>> the office that will be accessing the Slackware boxes will be 2K Pro, >>> or >> NT >>> workstation. I was wondering what the general opinion is out their >>> regarding winblows boxes accessing Linux file servers. >>> >>> Is it better to fire up NFS on the Slack boxes, and configure the >>> winblows >>> boxes to use NFS >>> or >>> Should I fire up Samba on the Slack Boxes instead of NFS?? >>> >>> Any comments are greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Many Thanks & Rock'N'Roll, >>> >>> Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars >>> mailto:chewbaka at toughguy.net >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >> Minnesota >>> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >> Minnesota >> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> BL> -- BL> Ben Lutgens BL> System Administrator BL> Sistina Software Inc http://www.sistina.com