Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 22:35:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Cloud" software ? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205252233040.31165@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <4FBFB5E7.1050005@qeng-ho.org> References: <4FBF3EA9.2000103@esiee.fr> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205251514330.22501@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4FBF8F38.9070300@qeng-ho.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205251602350.22852@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4FBF9356.7040504@esiee.fr> <4FBF9BDF.4020208@qeng-ho.org> <4FBFA17A.7010906@esiee.fr> <4FBFB5E7.1050005@qeng-ho.org>
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> > As he said in his post, NFS is the first place to start. It's available on > FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS, other Unix derived systems, and Windows 7. The one > thing to be careful of is that it works best when you have all home > directories on central servers and all access is on client machines. It is i would strongly recommend serving windows clients with windows protocol (samba), it is just simple and works great > For earlier (< 7) Windows boxes, one possibility is running Samba on the Unix > servers. This would seem most natural to a Windows user as they merely have > to browse the network to find the shared file systems. With windows 7 samba still is far better. And with NFS you will not be able to enforce security without making separate filesystem for each user. > However, another possibility is running a WebDAV server that makes the home > directories visible. Windows (>= XP) can connect drive letters to WebDAV > servers, and there are also Android and iPhone apps that can access WebDAV. if really someone needs HTTP based file access (IMHO stupid) because phones require this i would rather set it up parallel to SAMBA and/or NFS > >
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