From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 23 6:48:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from coimbra.oss.uswest.net (coimbra.oss.uswest.net [209.180.20.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DF337C235 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 06:48:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nitebirdz@uswest.net) Received: from localhost (IDENT:nitebirdz@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by coimbra.oss.uswest.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA08341; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:50:23 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:50:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Nitebirdz X-Sender: nitebirdz@coimbra.oss.uswest.net To: Joe Warner Cc: freebsd newbies Subject: Re: NFS vs Samba In-Reply-To: <39503CC0.66F83861@uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Joe Warner wrote: > What's better for file sharing across a network? NFS or Samba? ...Just > > curious. Thanks. > It depends on your network. Samba is ideal if Windows clients need to access files and printing services in your UNIX servers. On the other hand, if you work in an all-UNIX shop (lucky you!), then NFS would obviously be the way to go. I believe it is also possible to get some NFS clients for Windows, but I'm not sure any of them is free. Also heard that Win2K may have it installed by default, but don't quote me on this. ------------------------------ Nitebirdz http://www.linuxnovice.org Tips, articles, news, links... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message