From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 24 2:39: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf24.de (mail.surf24.de [212.62.192.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9A3637BB30 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 02:38:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de) Received: from duffner.surf24.de (surf232.surf24.de [212.62.193.232]) by mail.surf24.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA31469; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 11:38:55 +0200 Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 11:20:04 +0100 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: NFS vs Samba To: Nitebirdz Cc: freebsd newbies , Joe Warner In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.46] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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