Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 00:21:22 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@bayouhome.net> To: Charles Peters - Tech Support <support@tecpro.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS -vs- Samba Message-ID: <20000602002122.A37065@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <3936FE36.27430.E262A5@localhost>; from support@tecpro.com on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 12:22:14AM -0400 References: <3936FE36.27430.E262A5@localhost>
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On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 12:22:14AM -0400, Charles Peters - Tech Support wrote: > Hello Yall! > > Can anyone point me to a good explination on the differences in NFS > and Samba. > > As I understand it, NFS allows unix clients to connect to a > centralized set of files on the NFS server. Also, the NFS can be a > client to another NFS server. You can also do NFS with Windows but it is generally discouraged. > Samba only allows users to connect to its shares as if they were a NT > Server. A Samba share can only be a network server, not a network > client. There is a program called smbclient that is part of the samba suite. It lets you connect to any share. It has an ftp type interface. There is also someone working on an smbmount for FreeBSD (already exists for Linux) that will let you mount Windows shares on your FreeBSD box. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@bayouhome.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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