Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 11:20:04 +0100 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de> To: Nitebirdz <nitebirdz@uswest.net> Cc: freebsd newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net> Subject: Re: NFS vs Samba Message-ID: <Marcel-1.46-0624102004-b49Zsav@duffner.surf24.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006230848160.8285-100000@coimbra.oss.uswest.net>
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On Fri 23 Jun, Nitebirdz wrote: > 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. I read a test some time ago (might well be a year...) wherein all commercial NFS-clients for PCs were slower than Samba. So, I think that if you need to serve to PCs, there's no real reason not to go to /usr/ports/net/samba and make install clean ;-) cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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