Thursday, October 31, 2002 @ 3:29:53 PM Central Standard Time Cool....Thanks Alot.... Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars mailto:chewbaka at toughguy.net ********************************************************* Thursday, October 31, 2002, 10:57:00 AM, you wrote: MV> *cough* MV> Uhh, no, no we didn't. :) MV> And no, it's not dead. MV> As far as which is better, it'd depend on what the 'other things' you use MV> them for are. Figure out all the things they need to do and compare. If MV> you're going beyond the realm of just file sharing, then you're probably MV> going to want samba. Otherwise, I'd consider NFS the easier choice as far MV> as configuration goes (though there may be nice GUI Samba configuration MV> tools out there, I haven't checked lately). MV> -- MV> Michael Vieths MV> Foeclan at Visi.com MV> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Dan Rue wrote: >> I vote for samba! >> >> Why Slackware? isn't it sort of, ahh, dead? >> >> All the Slackware people went to Debian years ago :) >> >> dan >> I've been wrong before <shrug> >> >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:02:33AM -0600, B_o_B wrote: >> > 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 >> MV> _______________________________________________ MV> Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota MV> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org MV> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list